SCOTUS hands Texas a win in congressional redistricting battle
The U.S. Supreme Court has moved to allow Texas’s congressional redistricting to hold beyond the state’s primary elections this spring
by Summer Lane | April 27, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Monday that strikes down a federal court decision that previously blocked the hotly debated new congressional districting maps in Texas from going into effect.
According to Axios, the ruling allows the map to be used long-term, doubling down on a 2025 ruling from three federal judges that greenlit the use of the newly drawn maps in the primary elections, which were already held in Texas in March.
Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor dissented in the 6-3 decision. The redistricting is good news for Republicans in Texas, who now stand to gain up to five seats in the House after the midterms.
The redistricting battle lines were drawn in 2025, as Texas and then California launched their bids to gerrymander congressional districts to seemingly benefit Republicans and Democrats, respectively.
As reported by LindellTV, Gov. Newsom (D-Calif.) launched a special election effort, Proposition 50, which successfully passed last year, allowing a mid-decade congressional redistricting, which is on track to flip five Republican-held House seats to likely Democrat control in the midterm elections.
Politically, Texas may gain five Republican seats in the House, but California may lose five, therefore failing to tip the scales in any meaningful direction.
However, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) recently introduced a new redistricting map for the Sunshine State, projecting four “blue” districts and 24 for Republicans, according to Axios (an increase of four for the GOP).
Such a move could potentially create up to four new Republican seats in Florida. Florida was a longtime swing state before President Donald Trump burst onto the scene in 2016. Under the leadership of Gov. DeSantis and Florida’s multi-year population swell (eight percent since 2020), the state has solidified its Republican-voting bloc.
Photo: Adobe Stock
