The Supreme Court handed Republicans a massive win on Thursday.
The justices ruled that Texas could move forward with its new congressional map for the 2026 midterms. The state could pick up as many as five GOP seats, which strengthens the party’s hand heading into a crucial election cycle.
“The decision overturns, at least for now, a lower-court ruling that the new maps were likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That decision had blocked lawmakers from using the maps in the midterms,” the New York Times reported.
The high court’s action is a significant boost for President Donald Trump, who has been pushing Republican-controlled states across the country to undertake mid-decade redistricting to fight back against years of Democrat gerrymandering in blue states.
Democrats spent years carving up states to secure permanent power. Now that Republicans are pushing back, the left is crying foul and has been promising to redistrict their states even further.
The media, of course, pretends that Republicans started this fight.
The midcycle redistricting push, outside the political norm, is at the center of Mr. Trump’s midterm strategy. It has set off similar redistricting efforts in Democratic-led states like California. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, championed a ballot measure to allow California to redraw its congressional map. The state’s voters passed the measure, clearing the way for Mr. Newsom’s plan.
Texas officials helped set off this national redistricting fight. In August, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into a law that redrew maps for the state’s 38 congressional districts, creating five new seats where Republicans were favored.
Civil rights groups sued to challenge the map, asserting that lawmakers had engaged in racial gerrymandering, preventing minority voters from being able to select their candidates of choice.
In November, a divided panel of three federal judges in Texas blocked the state’s map from going into effect. In a 2-to-1 decision written by Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a Trump appointee, the panel issued a preliminary finding that sided with the civil rights groups.
The problem for Democrats in this redistricting battle, however, is the math. They’ve already heavily gerrymandered their states, so there are fewer seats for them to gain.
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There are other problems for the Democrats. Population shifts are steadily favoring Republican strongholds like Florida and Texas, which are set to gain multiple congressional seats. At the same time, Democratic-heavy states such as California and New York are losing residents and, with them, electoral clout. Even battleground states like Minnesota and Pennsylvania are projected to lose ground, making the left’s future in Washington increasingly precarious.
“In the face of Democrats’ attempt to abuse the judicial system to steal the U.S. House, I have defended Texas’s fundamental right to draw a map that ensures we are represented by Republicans,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said. “Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state. This map reflects the political climate of our state.”
Desperation is driving Democrats to fight a redistricting war they cannot win. Every move, every map, is an attempt to slow an inevitable trend. Still, the underlying demographic shifts make it clear that the party’s influence is eroding, and the Democrats are desperately clinging to power in a fight they are destined to lose.
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