"Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts, the supreme court ruled on Thursday, handing Donald Trump a major win in his push to boost Republican seats ahead of next year's midterm elections. In an unsigned order, the 6-3 conservative majority court granted a request by Texas to lift a lower court's ruling that struck down the state's new map in November. The supreme court's three liberal justices dissented."
"This court's stay guarantees that Texas's new map, with all its enhanced partisan advantage, will govern next year's elections for the House of Representatives. And this court's stay ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race. And that result, as this court has pronounced year in and year out, is a violation of the constitution, she continued."
The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority stayed a lower court order and permitted Texas to use a newly redrawn congressional map for next year's elections. The lower court had found Texas likely engaged in racial gerrymandering when adopting the maps and had ordered use of the post-2020 maps instead. The high court said the lower court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign and disrupted federal-state election balance. The three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan arguing the majority disregarded the district court's fact-based findings and that the stay enshrines enhanced partisan advantage and constitutional violations by sorting citizens by race.
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