The Supreme Court handed Republicans a massive win on Thursday.
The justices ruled that Texas could move forward with its new congressional map for the 2026 midterms. The state could pick up as many as five GOP seats, which strengthens the party’s hand heading into a crucial election cycle.
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“The decision overturns, at least for now, a lower-court ruling that the new maps were likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That decision had blocked lawmakers from using the maps in the midterms,” the New York Times reported.
The high court’s action is a significant boost for President Donald Trump, who has been pushing Republican-controlled states across the country to undertake mid-decade redistricting to fight back against years of Democrat gerrymandering in blue states.
Democrats spent years
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