Supreme Court rules Texas can use redistricting map during 2026 midterms | 4 Dec 2025 | The Supreme Court gave Republicans a major victory Thursday by ruling that Texas can use its recently redrawn congressional redistricting map in the 2026 midterms, which could give Republicans another five seats in the red state. The ruling comes after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked a lower court order last month that found Texas’s map was likely unconstitutional because it was likely racially gerrymandered. The Supreme Court determined Thursday that Texas was likely to succeed on the “merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors,” including that it “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.”