{"id":2595675,"date":"2026-04-27T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-allows-texass-pro-gop-redistricting-to-stand\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:00:38","slug":"supreme-court-allows-texass-pro-gop-redistricting-to-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-allows-texass-pro-gop-redistricting-to-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows Texas&#8217;s pro-GOP redistricting to stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-allows-texass-pro-gop-redistricting-to-stand%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=2595675&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>Teh U.S. Supreme court on Monday allowed Texas\u2019s redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional map to be used for the 2026 elections, reversing a lower court\u2019s decision that found it an unlawful racial gerrymander. In a late-December emergency docket ruling, the Court had signaled deference to the presumption of legislative good faith and criticized the lower court\u2019s handling of evidence and alternatives. Building on that reasoning, the Court summarily overturned the 2025 ruling by a three-judge federal panel and formally ended the legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal was 6-3 along ideological lines, with the dissenters being Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.The decision could favor Republicans by adding up to five House seats for the next election cycle. More broadly, the article notes that mid-decade redistricting in multiple states has produced seat gains for both parties, with Democrats currently holding a slight net advantage while some additional maps-such as Virginia\u2019s-are still facing further legal challenges. It also mentions Florida\u2019s newly unveiled map, which would aim to add up to four Republican seats if approved.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"203\">Supreme Court<\/a> allowed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"253\">Texas\u2019s<\/a> redrawn Republican-friendly congressional map to stand on Monday, formally reversing a lower court\u2019s ruling striking down the map as an unlawful racial gerrymander.<\/p>\n<p>The high court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3908107\/supreme-court-texas-redrawn-congressional-map\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3908107\/supreme-court-texas-redrawn-congressional-map\/\">allowed<\/a> the Texas congressional map, passed by the state legislature last summer, to be used for the November elections in an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >emergency docket ruling late<\/a> last year. On Monday, the Supreme Court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/042726zor_08l1.pdf\">reversed<\/a> a lower federal court\u2019s ruling striking down the maps by a 6-3 margin on ideological lines, formally ending the legal battle and allowing the map, which could net Republicans up to five seats in the House, to stand beyond the 2026 elections.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4544063\/supreme-court-punts-on-school-secret-gender-transition-cases\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Supreme Court punts on school secret gender transition cases<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4542562\/geofence-warrans-face-supreme-court-scrutiny\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Key law enforcement search tool faces Supreme Court scrutiny<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4540303\/supreme-court-sitting-key-second-amendment-cases\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Supreme Court sitting on several key Second Amendment cases<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>In the December emergency docket ruling, the unsigned <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25a608_7khn.pdf\">majority<\/a> found the lower court \u201cfailed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature\u201d and that it \u201cfailed to draw a dispositive or near-dispositive adverse inference against respondents even though they did not produce a viable alternative map that met the State\u2019s avowedly partisan goals\u201d in its ruling that the new congressional map was an unlawful racial gerrymander.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The three justices who dissented from both the December emergency docket ruling and Monday\u2019s summary reversal were justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Using the logic from its previous emergency docket ruling, the high court summarily reversed the 2025 ruling of a three-judge panel, consisting of two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-panel-supports-judges-clerk-ban-over-anti-israel-protests-at-columbia-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Ethics panel supports judges\u2019 clerk ban over anti-Israel protests at Columbia - Washington Examiner\">federal district judges<\/a> and one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-weaponizes-position-to-push-leftist-agenda\/\" title=\"AG Garland Weaponizes Position to Push Leftist Agenda\">federal circuit judge<\/a>, who ruled 2-1 that the newly drawn map was an unlawful racial gerrymander. U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, had been the lone dissenting judge from the panel\u2019s ruling and took aim at the majority opinion and its author, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, an appointee of President Donald Trump, in his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3893428\/fiery-dissent-texas-redistricting-case-paves-path-supreme-court-appeal\/\">104-page dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith called the ruling \u201cthe most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed\u201d and said it was \u201creplete with legal and factual error, and accompanied by naked procedural abuse,\u201d which demanded reversal by the Supreme Court. The high court ultimately handed Smith the reversal he had asked for in his blistering dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019s new congressional map, intended to give Republicans additional seats in the House, started a round of mid-decade redistricting that saw various Democrat-led and Republican-led states enacting new, partisan maps. Across Texas, California, Missouri, Utah, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia, Republicans are believed to have gained nine new seats compared to Democrats, who are believed to have gained 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3908107\/supreme-court-texas-redrawn-congressional-map\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"3908107\">SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TEXAS TO USE REDRAWN CONGRESSIONAL MAP FOR 2026 ELECTIONS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Democrats currently hold an advantage of one net seat gained through redistricting, the new Virginia congressional map, which was narrowly passed by voters last week and would net Democrats four seats, is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544139\/virginia-redistrict-amendment-faces-tension-state-supreme-court\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544139\/virginia-redistrict-amendment-faces-tension-state-supreme-court\/\">facing a lawsuit <\/a>at the state\u2019s Supreme Court. During arguments Monday morning, the justices had sharp questions for defenders of the new congressional map, but did not indicate how they will rule in the case.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4544131\/ron-desantis-florida-map-four-gop-house-seats\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4544131\/ron-desantis-florida-map-four-gop-house-seats\/\">unveiled<\/a> a new congressional map Monday that would net Republicans up to four new seats and would put Republicans ahead of Democrats in the overall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-and-california-battle-over-redistricting-advantages\/\" title=\"Texas and California battle over ... advantages\">mid-decade redistricting effort<\/a>, if passed by the overwhelmingly GOP state legislature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court lets Texas\u2019 Republican map stand for 2026 elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2595676,"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\/2026\/04\/AP26058701884738.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22850,16985,32275,3694,32570],"class_list":["post-2595675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gerrymandering","tag-redistricting","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas","tag-voting-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26058701884738.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595675","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=2595675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595679,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595675\/revisions\/2595679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}