HUGE VICTORY: Supreme Court UPHOLDS New Texas Congressional Map

SCOTUS just handed President Trump and the Republican party at large a massive win.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court permitted Texas to use their new congressional map, which is likely to give Republicans five more House seats.

Here are the details:

🚨 BREAKING – MASSIVE VICTORY: Supreme Court UPHOLDS Texas' 2026 Congressional redistricting map in a 6-3 ruling

HUGE WIN.

This means +5 RED SEATS! pic.twitter.com/NBOK8sxIva

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 4, 2025

The three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissented the decision.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026.

Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.https://t.co/XCzbZBBhzH pic.twitter.com/1Wy2M4AU0i

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 4, 2025

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reacted to the news:

We won! Texas is officially—and legally—more red.

The Supreme Court restored the congressional redistricting maps passed by Texas that add 5 more Republican seats.

The new maps better align our representation in D.C. with the values of Texas.
https://t.co/dsxH0XgNGs

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 5, 2025

Today’s SCOTUS decision pauses a ruling from a lower court that basically claimed Texas’ new congressional map was illegal because it was racist.

The New York Times explained:

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 Supreme Court’s order comes days before a Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to file to run for office in Texas. It marks a victory for Texas Republicans and for President Trump, who has pushed Republican-led states to revise their congressional maps to try to secure G.O.P. victories in the midterms.

The ruling also adds to the growing list of successes for the Trump administration before the justices, particularly on their emergency docket of cases heard without oral arguments, where the court’s orders are intended to be merely interim. Critics refer to it as the “shadow docket” and note the temporary decisions can have broad consequences.

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It’s not a final decision, yet.

But, it certainly appears like the Supreme Court has all but sided with Texas fully on the matter.

NBC News has more details on the ruling:

The unsigned order said that Texas is “likely to succeed on the merits of its claim,” including that the lower court “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith” when assessing the state Legislature’s motives.

The ruling appeared to be 6-3, with the three liberal justices dissenting.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that the decision “disrespects the work of a district court that did everything one could ask” and also “disserves the millions of Texans whom the district court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”

The map was drawn with the aim of adding up to five additional Republican House seats, which no one contests, but the lower court found that the map was drawn with the aim of moving certain minority voters into different districts.

In a separate concurring opinion pushing back on Kagan, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that the plaintiffs challenging the map needed to do a better job of showing that race was the motivating factor by, among other things, producing their own map that would show the state’s partisan goals could be achieved by other means.

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The failure to do so gave rise to “a strong inference that the state’s map was indeed based on partisanship, not race,” he wrote.

The decision marks a win for President Donald Trump, who filed a brief urging the court to rule in favor of Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defended the map, welcomed the decision.

“This map reflects the political climate of our state and is a massive win for Texas and every conservative who is tired of watching the left try to upend the political system with bogus lawsuits,” he said in a statement.

Notably, Texas’ new congressional maps will effectively cancel out Newsom’s new congressional map in California, which is expected to give Democrats five more House seats.

With similar redistricting efforts underway in multiple red seats, this is shaping up to be a huge shift in the balance of power ahead of next year’s midterms.

Indiana and Florida need to pull thru. God Bless Texas. Thank you to the Supreme Court. Let’s go 🙏

— Matthew Zimmerman 🇺🇸 (@MattZimmerman26) December 4, 2025

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