{"id":2513416,"date":"2025-11-21T20:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-temporarily-restores-new-texas-congressional-map\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:34:36","slug":"supreme-court-temporarily-restores-new-texas-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-temporarily-restores-new-texas-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court temporarily restores new Texas congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-temporarily-restores-new-texas-congressional-map%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2513416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that prevented Texas from using its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vernon-jones-drops-out-of-georgia-governors-race-endorses-david-perdue\/\" title=\"Vernon Jones Drops Out of Georgia Governor\u2019s Race, Endorses David Perdue\">newly drawn congressional map<\/a> for the 2026 elections. Justice Samuel Alito granted a stay allowing Texas to use the new map while the Supreme Court reviews the state&#8217;s emergency petition. The lower court had found the 2025 map to be an unlawful racial gerrymander,but Texas argues that the redistricting is a lawful partisan gerrymander designed to give Republicans five additional House seats. Texas officials criticized the late timing of the lower court&#8217;s injunction, which disrupted candidate filings and campaigning. Attorney General Ken Paxton condemned lawsuits challenging the map as attempts by &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-condemns-d-c-demonstrators-despite-past-encouragement-of-violent-blm-mobs\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris condemns D.C. demonstrators despite past encouragement of violent BLM mobs\">radical left-wing activists<\/a>&#8221; to undermine Republican representation. The three-judge panel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >ruling faced strong criticism<\/a> from one judge who called it a clear case of judicial overreach. This legal battle is part of a broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-redistricting-lawsuit-could-cost-congressional-republicans-up-to-six-house-seats\/\" title=\"NY ... Lawsuit May Result in GOP Losing Six ... ...\">mid-decade redistricting<\/a> conflict nationwide, with similar partisan efforts occurring in states like California, Indiana, and Virginia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court temporarily restores new Texas congressional map for 2026 elections<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2406128\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> has temporarily halted a lower court&rsquo;s order barring <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\">Texas<\/a> from using its new congressional map for the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2026-elections\/\">2026 elections<\/a> after the state filed an emergency petition to the high court Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Justice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/samuel-alito\/\">Samuel Alito<\/a>, who oversees the judicial circuit in which the case originated, granted an administrative stay of a lower court&rsquo;s ruling ordering that the state use the congressional map passed in 2021 for the 2026 elections. Alito&rsquo;s order means that the new Texas congressional map has been temporarily restored for the 2026 election while the full Supreme Court considers the emergency petition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3890533\/trump-administration-accuses-illinois-officials-of-inciting-ice-protests\/\">Trump administration accuses Illinois officials of inciting ICE protests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3889752\/supreme-court-pushed-take-up-nra-free-speech-case\/\">Supreme Court pushed to take up NRA free speech case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3889270\/supreme-court-declines-challenge-prayer-high-school-football-game\/\">Supreme Court declines to take up challenge over prayer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ammon-bundy-supporters-to-protest-in-idaho-on-wednesday-over-his-arrest\/\" title=\"Ammon Bundy Supporters to Protest in Idaho on Wednesday Over His Arrest\">high school football game<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A three-judge panel had ruled in a 2-1 decision that the map passed earlier this year was an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3890771\/federal-court-blocks-texas-using-new-congressional-map-2026-election\/\">unlawful racial gerrymander<\/a>. The state claims the maps were drawn as a partisan gerrymander, which is lawful, rather than a racial gerrymander, as the new map was slated to give Republicans five additional seats in the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/house\/\">House of Representatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas&rsquo;s emergency petition to the high court late Friday asked for a full ruling on the emergency petition by Dec. 1, noting that the lower court&rsquo;s ruling came in the middle of the candidate filing period for the 2026 elections. The candidate filing period in Texas is scheduled to end on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The district court entered its sweeping injunction far too late in the day&mdash;ten days after Texas&rsquo;s candidate filing period had already opened,&rdquo; the petition said. &ldquo;The injunction changes the boundaries of all but one of the State&rsquo;s 38 congressional districts, enjoining Texas from using its duly enacted 2025 map and resurrecting the repealed 2021 map.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The chaos caused by such an injunction is obvious: campaigning had already begun, candidates had already gathered signatures and filed applications to appear on the ballot under the 2025 map, and early voting for the March 3, 2026, primary was only 91 days away,&rdquo; it continued. &ldquo;The lateness of the district court&rsquo;s injunction (issued 38 days after the hearing) alone warrants a stay.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alito requested a response to the petition from the groups suing Texas over the congressional map by 5 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ken-paxton\/\">Ken Paxton<\/a> defended the congressional maps in a statement shortly after filing the emergency petition to the Supreme Court, accusing &ldquo;radical left-wing activists&rdquo; of attempting to steal the House &ldquo;for Democrats&rdquo; through lawsuits challenging the maps.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am fighting to stop this blatant attempt to upend our political system,&rdquo; Paxton said. &ldquo;Texas engaged in partisan redistricting solely to secure more Republican seats in Congress and thereby better represent our state and Texans. For years, Democrats have aggressively gerrymandered their states and only cry foul and hurl baseless &lsquo;racism&rsquo; accusations because they are losing.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The majority ruling of the three-judge panel was accompanied by a fiery, lengthy dissent from U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, who took aim at the majority opinion and its author, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Smith called the ruling &ldquo;the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed&rdquo; and said it was &ldquo;replete with legal and factual error, and accompanied by naked procedural abuse,&rdquo; which demanded reversal by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3893428\/fiery-dissent-texas-redistricting-case-paves-path-supreme-court-appeal\/\">FIERY DISSENT IN TEXAS REDISTRICTING CASE PAVES PATH FOR SUPREME COURT APPEAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Texas&rsquo;s decision to draw the new congressional map, which would likely net Republicans five seats in the House, sparked a race for mid-decade redistricting. Earlier this month, California voters&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3871493\/california-proposition-50-redistricting-result\/\">passed a ballot measure<\/a>&nbsp;to give the state&rsquo;s Democratic-controlled legislature the ability to redraw the congressional map, likely netting Democrats five seats.<\/p>\n<p>If the order halting Texas&rsquo;s new map is reinstated, the GOP would be at a net loss in this cycle&rsquo;s redistricting battle, especially as&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3887895\/indiana-republicans-relent-redistricting-effort\/\">Indiana lawmakers punt<\/a>&nbsp;on trying to draw the GOP up to two new seats and Virginia Democrats, emboldened by this month&rsquo;s elections,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3882760\/louise-lucas-questionabcampaign-funds-family-business-daughters-campaign-steaks\/\">set their sights<\/a>&nbsp;on drawing more Democratic seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court temporarily reinstates Texas 2026 map<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2513417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25274099616120_687504.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[58799,32275,3694],"class_list":["post-2513416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congressional-map","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25274099616120_687504.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513420,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513416\/revisions\/2513420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}