US EditionKagan issues scathing dissent in Texas redistricting case
The Court's 6-3 ruling permits Texas to use maps found to rely on race, potentially adding five Republican seats in the 2026 midterms despite a federal court's rejection.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to use new congressional maps designed to elect five more Republicans in a 6-3 decision.
- The Texas Legislature redrew districts after President Trump’s urging, and the three-judge federal court held a nine-day hearing with over 3,000 pages of evidence, finding race predominated in the maps.
- Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that appellate courts should accept lower-court factfinding unless clearly erroneous, and requiring an alternative map cannot justify unconstitutional race-based decisions.
- The district court issued its ruling on Nov. 18, almost a year before the midterms on Nov. 3, 2026, yet the Supreme Court still blocked relief, which commentators say abdicates its constitutional role.
- Kagan warned that extending the Purcell principle gives states the opportunity to hold unlawful elections and blocks challenges in places like California, Missouri and North Carolina.
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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to use the Republican-designed new electoral district map in the 2026 mid-term elections, raising Donald Trump’s hopes of maintaining control of the House of Representatives. This conservative-dominated high court Thursday’s decision rendered invalid a ruling by an El Paso court that invalidated the design of the new districts, supported by Trump and Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott, because they had rac…
Supreme Court Allows Texas To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In news that can be filed under “disappointing, but not surprising,” the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing Texas to use its recently redistricted map in the 2026 midterms. According to CBS News, the ruling came after a panel of federal judges struck down the map last month. In the original ruling, the judges found the map unconstitutional, believing it was racially gerrymandered. In an unsigned order, the S…
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Kagan issues scathing dissent in Texas redistricting case
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s congressional map could violate voters’ rights enshrined in the Constitution. In her dissent with fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan wrote that the high court intervened “based on its perusal, over a…
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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In news that can be filed under “disappointing, but not surprising,” the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing Texas to use its recently redistricted map in the 2026 midterms. According to CBS News, the ruling came after a panel of federal judges struck down the map last month. In the original ruling, the judges found the map unconstitutional, believing it was racially gerrymandered. In an unsigned order, the S…
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