Supreme Court Clears Texas '26 Map in Huge Win for GOP

Newsmax ^ | December 4, 2025 | Michael Katz

[Navy Patriot]

The Supreme Court on Thursday paved the way for Texas to use its redrawn congressional map, a major victory for Republicans who could gain as many as five seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

In an unsigned order, the justices granted Texas' emergency request to block a three-judge federal district court ruling that barred the map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

"Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state," Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "This map reflects the political climate of our state and is a massive win for Texas and every conservative who is tired of watching the left try to upend the political system with bogus lawsuits."

The high court said Texas is likely to win when the case comes back on the merits. In the brief order, the justices said the state satisfied the "traditional criteria for interim relief" and faulted the lower court for "at least two serious errors" in striking down the map.

First, the majority said the three-judge court failed to apply the usual presumption that lawmakers act in "good faith" and instead construed "ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature."

Second, it said the lower court should have drawn a "dispositive or near-dispositive" adverse inference against the challengers because they never produced an alternative map that would have met Texas' stated partisan goals without the racial features they attacked.

The justices also leaned heavily on timing, given that Sunday is the deadline for candidates to file for next year's elections.

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KEYWORDS: redistricting; scotus; texas

[Navy Patriot]

What a concept, an America without Democrats!!

[Republican Wildcat]

This indicates that their ruling on the other similar case is going to be consistent with this order.

[Navy Patriot]

Agree.

[montag813]

The problem is that Virginia Democrats are now planning their own map that increases their Congressional seat lead from 6-5 to 10-1.

[BradyLS]

“Take THAT, Jasmine!”

[Navy Patriot]

Evil never rests.

[SteveH]

Any comment from newsom yet?

[nutmeg]

👍

[exDemMom]

District 35 of Texas, “represented” by Greg Casar, consists largely of Austin, but has a narrow corridor along I-35 which reaches down into the northeast and central parts of San Antonio. Austin and San Antonio are 60 miles apart. It absolutely was gerrymandered along ethnic lines to be majority Hispanic (Hispanic is not a race). Thanks to the gerrymandering, the voices of conservatives are completely drowned out. In the last election, many of the races did not even have a Republican candidate. I left those races blank. I know that turning in a ballot with several blanks is dangerous, but on the other hand, it is printed after you vote on a touch screen, so would probably be hard to alter after the fact.

I’m looking forward to being in a district that is less gerrymandered. Funny how the Democrats claim the new map is drawn along racial lines, when the last map was drawn along ethnic lines.

[Navy Patriot]

Thanks, Mom, these firsthand reports are what we need to understand the dynamics of DemocRat vote fraud and vote theft.

Here in California they have a write in for the State and Local races, so Mrs. Patriot and I would write in Donald J. Trump when there was no Republican or some RINO, to prevent vote theft.