US EditionTexas Awaits US Supreme Court Decision on Redistricting Case
The Supreme Court will decide whether to block Texas' 2025 congressional map for racial gerrymandering before the 2026 primary filing deadline, with evidence cited by a federal judge.
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary stay last week, putting the lower-court order on hold while justices consider Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's emergency appeal to use the 2025 map in the 2026 primary.
- A majority of a three-judge district court ruled on Nov. 18 that there was substantial evidence the 2025 map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and ordered Texas to revert to the 2021 map for next year's elections.
- Plaintiffs cited a July 7 Department of Justice letter about four coalition districts and demographic data showing one Houston district was 45% Black and 25% Latino, and another 38% Black and 30% Latino.
- With the Dec. 8 filing deadline looming, candidates face uncertainty about which map to use as early voting for the March 3, 2026 primary is 91 days away and the Court may rule later this week.
- At stake is control of the House after the 2026 midterms, with President Donald Trump urging Texas earlier this year to redraw its map to flip five seats, and conservative justices citing the Purcell principle to potentially uphold the GOP-friendly map.
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Redressability and Irreparable Harm in the Texas Gerrymandering Case
The briefing has now concluded in Abbott v. LULAC. Texas's reply brief contends that a stay would not harm the plaintiffs. Here, the District Court ordered that Texas must use the 2021 map--the same map that the plaintiffs previously argued was unconstitutional. Finally, Plaintiffs fail to demonstrate that a stay would harm them. Plaintiffs contend that allowing the election to be held under the 2025 map would cause them the irreparable harm of …
Alex Mealer—West Pointer, Combat Veteran, Harvard JD/MBA, and TX-09 Candidate—Submits Amicus Brief to SCOTUS in Texas Redistricting Map Case
Houston, Texas – Today, American First Conservative Alex Mealer, the Republican frontrunner in Texas’s newly redrawn Ninth Congressional District, joined five other Texas congressional candidates in affected districts to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court regarding the Texas Redistricting Map Case. Alex Mealer is a West Point graduate and combat veteran who earned her JD/MBA from Harvard before building her oil & gas finance career in H…
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