Supreme’s Ok Texas GOP Friendly House Maps for Now….

In the familiar 6-3 Alito crew ruling the court ok’s the Texas House map for now….

The Alito crew knocked the Federal District Court as the reason…

(The Supreme’s Right Leaners contiune to diss the Judges in the District and Appeals courts that rule against Right Leaning Republican’s….Anyone that says the ‘High’ Court ain’t Political is lying to your face)

The Supreme Court revived Texas’s congressional map that sparked a mid-decade redistricting war by adding up to five Republican pickup opportunities, paving the way Thursday for it to be used for the midterm elections as litigation proceeds.

Over the dissents of the court’s three liberal justices, the majority said a lower court likely erred when invalidating the map as a likely racial gerrymander.

“Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right,” Kagan wrote, joined by fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“And today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race,” the dissent continued….

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Republicans on paper are expected to win up to nine seats in the House: five in Texas, two in Ohio, one in North Carolina and another in Missouri. Florida lawmakers are convening to consider redistricting in early December, and Indiana Republicans are reconvening this month to also consider the issue following much pressure from President Trump and his allies.

Democrats, meanwhile, are expected to gain six seats on paper: five seats from a new House map that California voters approved in November and one seat in Utah. Virginia Democrats are looking to pass a new map ahead of 2026, and Maryland could also move forward with a new map.

Democrats may be in for a better-than-anticipated midterm environment after their party saw resounding victories in races in states like New Jersey, Virginia, California and Georgia….

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“They enacted a map that redrew the same specific districts DOJ had targeted,” the Texas NAACP wrote in court filings. “In doing so, they took a sledgehammer to the voting power of Black and Latino citizens in those districts.”…

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Alito had briefly restored the map as the high court considered the emergency appeal.

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