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The reinstated map, backed by President Donald Trump, might flip key districts to Republicans.

The US Supreme Court docket has formally reinstated a redrawn Texas electoral map anticipated to spice up Republican illustration within the US Home of Representatives, as President Donald Trump’s occasion seeks to keep up management of Congress within the 2026 midterm elections.

The ruling, issued on Monday, break up alongside ideological strains, with the court docket’s six conservative justices within the majority and the three liberal justices dissenting.

The map – sought by Trump, authorized by the Republican-led state legislature in August 2025, and signed by Governor Greg Abbott – might flip as much as 5 Democratic Occasion-held Home seats to Republicans.

The Supreme Court docket’s ruling overturned a decrease court docket resolution that had blocked the map’s use after discovering it was doubtless racially discriminatory and in violation of constitutional protections.

Trump had urged Republican lawmakers final yr to redraw congressional maps to strengthen the occasion’s place forward of the November midterms, a push that has since developed right into a broader nationwide battle over redistricting.

Civil rights advocates sharply criticised the choice, arguing that the redistricting weakens the political affect of racial minorities.

“This was an intentional effort to restrict the ability of Black folks and different folks of color,” Damon Hewitt, president and government director of the Attorneys’ Committee for Civil Rights Below Legislation, mentioned on Monday.

“This ruling doesn’t erase the info. Texas dismantled majority-minority congressional districts after the Trump administration urged the state to do precisely that.

“The result’s a rigged map that limits the ability of voters of color in a state with an extended document of voter suppression,” he added.

Florida proposal escalates redistricting battle

The battle over electoral maps is enjoying out past Texas.

In Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday proposed a brand new congressional map geared toward flipping 4 Democratic-held Home seats within the midterm elections.

It stays unclear whether or not the proposal has sufficient help within the Republican-controlled legislature to go. DeSantis has known as a particular session beginning Tuesday to contemplate the plan.

The map, which DeSantis first shared with Fox Information, would doubtless give Republicans 24 of the state’s 28 US Home seats, up from its present 20-8 majority.

Republicans can afford to lose solely two Home seats in November’s election to retain a majority. A Democratic-controlled Home might launch investigations into Trump’s administration whereas blocking components of his legislative agenda.

In Virginia, voters final week narrowly authorized a Democratic-backed map focusing on 4 Republican incumbents. Republicans have filed a number of lawsuits difficult the measure, and the state’s Supreme Court docket heard arguments in a single such case on Monday.

Any overhaul in Florida would doubtless face authorized challenges. In 2010, voters authorized a constitutional modification barring lawmakers from drawing districts for political achieve, a follow generally known as gerrymandering.

Some Florida Republicans have additionally raised issues that an aggressive redraw might go away incumbents uncovered in a possible Democratic wave yr, as Democrats have outperformed their 2024 margins in dozens of elections since Trump returned to workplace in January 2025.

Virginia and Florida signify what are doubtless the ultimate battlegrounds within the redistricting warfare that Trump initiated final yr with Texas.