https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-formally-reinstates-pro-republican-texas-voting-map-2026-04-27/WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives, as President Donald Trump's party seeks to keep control of Congress in the November congressional elections.The move by the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, formalizes an interim decision it made in December to revive the map of U.S. House districts in Texas.The reinstated map - sought by Trump, approved in August 2025 by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott - could flip as many as five currently Democratic-held U.S. House seats to Republicans.As they did in December, the court's three liberal justices dissented from Monday's ruling.The Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision that had blocked Texas from using the map. The lower court had found the map to be likely racially discriminatory in violation of U.S. constitutional protections. Trump last year prodded Republican lawmakers to redraw state congressional maps to bolster his party's chances in the midterms.The Supreme Court in February allowed California to use a new electoral map designed to give Democrats five more congressional seats after that Democratic-led state redrew its House districts in response to the action by Republicans in Texas.Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. Ceding control of either the House or Senate to the Democrats in the upcoming elections would endanger Trump's legislative agenda and open the door to Democratic-led congressional investigations targeting the president.
The process of redrawing maps, known as redistricting, generally occurs once per decade to reflect population changes as measured by the national census conducted every 10 years. Ongoing and recently completed redistricting efforts by Republican- and Democratic-held state legislatures, on the other hand, have been motivated by a desire for partisan advantage.
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>>1509811Gerrymandering, an American tradition
>>1509811Leave it to the republican supreme court to declare racism is constitutional under their conservative rule.
>>1509895I'm told race is a social construct and doesn't exist. Now I'm told there's racism?Perhaps you're stereotyping blacks as Democrat voters?
>>1509900Why are you being racist? Oh wait you're conservative.
>>1509900There are genetic differences between blacks and whites and other racesRacism is extremely real and activly used to put down other races. No im not going to sit here and go get you a list of studies showing it, nor my personal experiences having grown up next door to the KKKs main strongholds. You're a concious human with the internet, you can stand to do that yourself. Anything else sir bait?
>>1509870I'm waiting for the ruling where Trump ordering Texas to redistrict for overtly political reasons is legal, but California and Virginia letting their voters decide is illegal for whatever fake reason they make up
>>1509902>, nor my personal experiences having grown up next door to the KKKs main strongholds.Old brown commie votes for the KKK party. Interesting.
>>1509900Race is just a feeling of commonwealth with a group of people based on in-group preferences.Racism is prejudice against that group of people. Race =/= ethnicity.
