Justice Samuel Alito had previously temporarily blocked the order while the full court considered the Texas appeal. The justices have blocked past lower-court rulings in congressional redistricting cases, most recently in Alabama and Louisiana, that came several months before elections. The Texas congressional map enacted last summer at Trump’s urging was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats. Texas state Sen. Pete Flores, R-Pleasanton, looks over a redrawn U.S. congressional map during debate over a bill in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2025. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map,” Brown wrote.

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2025 23:32 UTC