Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Texas Republicans' Redrawn Congressional Map

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito connected Friday temporarily permitted Texas to usage Republicans' redrawn legislature map that a national tribunal blocked earlier this week.

Alito's bid comes aft Texas asked nan precocious tribunal to intervene pursuing a ruling from a sheet of national judges connected Tuesday that barred nan authorities from utilizing caller territory lines designed to thief Republicans prime up an further 5 House seats successful adjacent year's midterm elections.

The little court's ruling, signed by Judge Jeffrey Brown — a nominee of President Donald Trump— had ordered Texas to usage a erstwhile representation that was drawn successful 2021 instead, aft uncovering that "substantial grounds shows that Texas racially gerrymandered nan 2025 Map."

The administrative enactment is simply a impermanent ruling that allows Texas to proceed to usage their caller representation for now, arsenic nan Supreme Court reviews nan case.

The tribunal ordered that nan civilian authorities defense groups who challenged nan representation to record a consequence by 5 p.m. connected Monday. The filing deadline for candidates successful Texas up of nan March superior is Dec. 8.

The territory court’s determination dealt a important setback for Trump, who has urged Republicans successful Texas and astir nan state to enact caller maps to thief statement up nan party's constrictive House majority.

While legislature maps are typically reassessed astatine nan commencement of each decade, erstwhile caller census information is available, Texas' redrawn representation triggered a nationalist redistricting conflict among some parties.

The Justice Department joined a Republican-led lawsuit challenging a Democratic-drawn representation successful California that voters approved earlier this month.