The Supreme Court said Thursday that Texas can use its new gerrymandered House map in the upcoming midterm elections, likely yielding as many as five additional seats for Republicans in the battle for control of the House.
The decision is a major boost for President Donald Trump’s bid to preserve the narrow GOP majority in the House by urging Republican-led states to conduct unusual middecade redistricting aimed at shrinking the number of Democrats in congressional delegations in Red states.
By an apparent 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from Texas officials to block a lower court ruling that ordered the state to return to the district lines adopted in 2021.
The high court’s ruling also took note of recent Democrat-led redistricting in California, signaling that the justices may not be inclined to interfere with those efforts or similar drives in other states.
