LOADING ERROR LOADINGA federal district court ruled that Texas’ mid-decade redistricting enacted in August is an illegal racial gerrymander and ordered the state to use its 2021 maps for the 2026 election. The decision is a massive blow to President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure GOP states to gerrymander House districts to cushion Republicans ahead of the midterms. The map adopted by the Texas legislature in August would have shifted five seats currently held by Democrats into the GOP column. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, responded by initiating a successful process to redraw his state’s maps to offset Texas’ gerrymander. Brown goes on to point out that Dhillon’s explanations for which districts were unconstitutional coalition districts included multiple factual inaccuracies, including the background about how the district lines were initially drawn.

Source: Huffington Post November 18, 2025 21:29 UTC