{"id":11598,"date":"2025-12-06T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:59:39","slug":"scotus-allows-tx-to-use-congressional-map-favoring-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=11598","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Allows TX to Use Congressional Map Favoring Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to move forward with its new congressional map. This decision came after a lower court ruled that the new map unconstitutionally sorts voters by race.\n<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to Texas\u2019 efforts to be able to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans in the 2026 elections despite a lower court\u2019s\u00a0ruling\u00a0that the map unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race. In a brief, unsigned opinion, a majority of the court granted the state\u2019s request to pause the ruling issued earlier this month by a three-judge district court in El Paso. That ruling had been on hold since Nov. 21, when Justice Samuel Alito \u2013 who handles emergency appeals from Texas \u2013 temporarily stayed it to give the justices time to consider the state\u2019s request; Wednesday\u2019s decision extends that hold indefinitely.\n<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s five-paragraph\u00a0order\u00a0indicated that \u201cTexas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors.\u201d Moreover, it added, the lower court \u201cimproperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the ruling, in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Thursday\u2019s order, she said, \u201cannounces that Texas may run next year\u2019s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today\u2019s order,\u201d she continued, \u201cdisrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge\u2014that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeking to protect the Republican party in next year\u2019s midterms, President Trump called on Texas over the summer to redraw its congressional map. Then, in July, the Department of Justice sent the state a letter alleging that some districts were unconstitutional \u201ccoalition districts,\u201d defined by SCOTUSblog as \u201cmajority-minority districts that lack a single racial majority.\u201d The DOJ threatened to take action is Texas didn\u2019t rectify the issue, so Governor Greg Abbott ordered state legislators to draw a new congressional map.\n<\/p>\n

A group of plaintiffs, led by the League of United Latin American Citizens, were quick to challenge the map, accusing Texas of racial gerrymandering. The state responded by arguing that it adopted a new map for purely political and partisan, not racial, reasons.\n<\/p>\n

With Texas\u2019 new map, Republicans hope to win 30 of the state\u2019s 38 seats. If this map is in use next November, it could keep the GOP from losing control of the House in the midterms.\n<\/p>\n

As election season heats up and more states try redistricting, we will likely see more cases like these. Let\u2019s continue to pray for fair and secure elections, and let\u2019s pray for wisdom for the Supreme Court!\n<\/p>\n

What do you think of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision? Share your thoughts and prayers below.<\/h4>\n

(Excerpt from SCOTUSblog. Photo Credit: CHIP SOMODEVILLA\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)
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