Washington — The Supreme Court docket on Thursday restored for now Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map that might give Republicans 5 further Home seats, after a decrease court docket discovered that a few of the new voting strains had been racially discriminatory.
The choice from the excessive court docket 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 social gathering holds onto its majority within the Home.
That plan was quickly 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 quickly reinstated the map whereas the total court docket thought-about the request. The excessive court docket has now agreed to dam the decrease court docket’s choice, permitting Texas to make use of the brand new district strains for subsequent yr’s Home elections.
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