SCOTUS allows Texas to use Trump-pushed redrawn congressional redistricting map favoring Republicans
The Supreme Court signaled that Texas is likely to prevail in defending its new congressional map, faulting a lower court for misreading evidence and ignoring required legal inferences as the...
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The Supreme Court signaled that Texas is likely to prevail in defending its new congressional map, faulting a lower court for misreading evidence and ignoring required legal inferences as the state races toward 2026 election deadlines. In a brief order that keeps Governor Greg Abbott’s redrawn districts in place for now, the Court said the District Court committed two major errors – first by failing to apply the presumption of legislative good faith when considering disputed evidence, and second by declining to draw a near-dispositive inference against challengers who offered no alternative map that met Texas’s partisan goals. The stay is temporary while the merits proceed, yet Justice Elena Kagan warned in dissent that the ruling effectively locks in the contested boundaries for the 2026 midterms because of looming state deadlines. "This Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequence," Kagen said. "The majority calls its ‘evaluation’ of this case ‘preliminary.’.. The results, though, will be anything but. DOJ BACKS TEXAS IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT OVER REPUBLICAN-DRAWN MAP "This Court’s stay guarantees that Texas’s new map, with all its enhanced partisan advantage, will govern next year’s elections for the House of Representatives. And this Court’s stay ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race," Kagen continued. "And that result, as this Court has pronounced year in and year out, is a violation of the Constitution." The ruling arrives amid a broader, unprecedented national redistricting battle driven by current sitting president Donald Trump’s effort to fortify the GOP House majority heading into 2026 — a campaign that began in Texas before rapidly spreading to other states. Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections, Trump in June first floated the idea of rare but…