Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms

Texas Tribune ^ | November 18, 2025 | Eleanor Klibanoff

[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.

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KEYWORDS: congress; davidguaderrama; jeffreybrown; misleadingheadline; perception; texas; texastribune

[Hartlyboy]

Even more worrisome than the current crop of politicized judges playing havoc with the direction we voted for is the lack of progress we are seeing in seating our own politicized [or even impartial] judges. After the 2026 mid-terms we’ll be fighting the judiciary AND Congress.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Look these three judiciary jugheads up. Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!

[FlingWingFlyer]

So it’s okay for their greaser massa, Newscum, to do it but not the Republicans. Lock these clowns up. They all belong in prison.