"The Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year's elections to be held under the state's congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race. The justices acted on an emergency request from Texas for quick action because qualifying in the new districts already has begun, with primary elections in March."
"The Texas congressional map enacted last summer at Trump's urging was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats. The effort to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House in next year's elections touched off a nationwide redistricting battle. Texas was the first state to meet Trump's demands in what has become an expanding national battle over redistricting. Republicans drew the state's new map to give the GOP five additional seats,"
The Supreme Court temporarily allowed Texas to use its new congressional redistricting plan for next year's elections by pausing a lower-court order that had found the map likely discriminated on the basis of race. The justices acted on an emergency request from Texas because candidate qualifying had begun and primaries are scheduled in March. The map, enacted last summer at Trump's urging, was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats and sparked nationwide redistricting battles as other states followed or countered with their own maps and initiatives. Legal challenges are ongoing in multiple states.
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