A panel of federal judges on Tuesday blocked the new Texas Congressional map and ordered the state to use the 2021 map.
In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge panel ordered Texas to use its 2021 congressional map.
The judges claimed the newly redrawn map is unconstitutional because it appears to be a ‘race-based gerrymander.’
The ruling is expected to be immediately appealed.
US District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion.
Politico reported:
A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.
In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.
“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.
In late August, the Texas House voted on the new Congressional map after the Democrats stonewalled them for more than two weeks.
The map, passed 19–2 along party lines, was designed to create up to five new Republican‑drawn U.S. House seats in anticipation of the 2026 midterm elections.
“This mid-decade redistricting isn’t about fair representation—it’s about politicians picking their voters instead of voters choosing their leaders,” the Senate Democrat Caucus said in a previous statement. “And it doesn’t stop here. If they can gerrymander now, they can and will do it before every election.”
Democrat-run California passed a new congressional map that eliminates five GOP seats in response to Texas’s new map.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California, arguing that its new map is unconstitutional because it is allegedly race-based.
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