Washington — The Supreme Court docket on Thursday restored for now Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map that would give Republicans 5 further Home seats, after a decrease courtroom discovered that a few of the new voting strains had been racially discriminatory.
The choice from the excessive courtroom is a boon to Home Republicans and President Trump — who has pushed quite a few GOP-led states to undertake a uncommon mid-decade redistricting in an effort to make sure his get together holds onto its majority within the Home.
That plan was briefly derailed final month when a divided panel of three judges blocked Texas from utilizing its re-crafted Home map for the 2026 election cycle and located that sure districts had been racially gerrymandered.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, swiftly requested the Supreme Court docket to intervene, and Justice Samuel Alito briefly reinstated the map whereas the complete courtroom thought-about the request. The excessive courtroom has now agreed to dam the decrease courtroom’s determination, permitting Texas to make use of the brand new district strains for subsequent 12 months’s Home elections.
