Posted on 11/18/2025 11:18:15 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday.
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts — up from the 25 they currently hold — and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House.
“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
Brown ordered that the 2026 congressional election “shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021.” The case will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but time is short: Candidates only have until Dec. 8 to file for the upcoming election.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
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Appeal it immediately to the SCOTUS...............
Here we go......
Predictable. And California will be allowed to use its.
Our court system is nothing if not consistently corrupt.
And California will be allowed to use its.
Timing is everything. Sure it will get overturned, just not in time for the 2026 elections. Same game these judges always play.
It has all been gerrymandered to varying degrees since the 18th century. As long as you are not trying to keep black people from being represented the fact that it is politics should keep the courts out of it.
Of course they did. What else would anyone expect?
How many don’t think we are in a cold Civil War?
Texas has just as much right to do this as any other state and it has been done for eons. Why make such an absurd ruling now?
I would argue that Texas is un-gerrymandering the voting districts. It is states like California who have gerrymandered their maps. They have 40% Republican voters, but nowhere near 40% Republican representation in congress.
Well if certain races would stop voting Democrat there would be no need for redistricting to reflect racial as well as political boundaries. Does not mean that those racial boundaries were the goal or were done on purpose.
BS. Let SCOTUS decide
The Tx Tribune is
Left Wing Blog funded by Soros and. Cali Commie
created to flip TX Blue .
Its not a legitimate new source .
Its a Soros Non profit .
Its a pack of lies .
I think this Soros site is banned here .
May want to remove it .
Scotus is deciding a Case on Race Bassed Districting this term.
Ooooooo.
“a three-judge panel “
!!!!
Well then, they must be in control of the country then if there are
3 of them,
AND
they are on a PANEL !!!
Ooooooo.
/s
The headline popped up on my LSEG Thomson monitor, so I googled “texas news” and the Tribune link appeared.
That said, the court did what the court did. Changing the source isn’t going to change the reality.
But you peddle there Lies and Spin and Gives
the Soros website Hits .
You dont notify any one its a Soros Website .
(a) I didn’t know it, but I’ll take your word.
(2) Is the story I posted in any way a lie?
This is from Wikipedia. The name Soros does not appear.
On the other hand, that of T. Boone Pickens does:
Thornton and his wife, Julie, seeded the venture with $1 million of their own money[14][15] to fund the organization’s nascent operations and began to raise money from around the state and around the country from individuals, corporations, and foundations.[14]
An additional $2.5 million donated by various foundations and Texas philanthropists including former Democratic Lt. Governor Ben Barnes, financier T. Boone Pickens and businessman Red McCombs.[16] Pickens in particular donated $150,000.[17] Foundations donated about $1.1 million, including a total of $750,000 in grants from the Houston Endowment.[18] The Sid W. Richardson Foundation of Fort Worth also gave a $100,000 operating grant beginning from 2015 and continues to provide an operating grant. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation donated $250,000 in late 2009, and their subsequent donations totaled $2 million by December 2016. That month, they announced that they would match up to $25,000 in gifts of $1,000 or less pledged to the Tribune between then and January 19, 2017.[19] Most of the 68 corporate sponsors made a $2,500 commitment as co-founders of the publication. Thornton stated in January 2010, “In the coming months, we intend to become far more sophisticated in the way we market corporate sponsorships of both our site and our events series, TribLive.
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