A US federal court on Tuesday, November 18, suspended Texas’ new electoral map aimed at allowing Republicans to win five more seats in the House of Representatives during midterm elections in a year.
It was seized by African-American and Latino voters who saw this re-election as a bad thing “discriminatory” against minority groups, the court suspended the law and ordered authorities to use the same maps in the midterm elections in November 2026 as in the 2022 and 2024 elections. “There is significant evidence that Texas is drawing its 2025 map along racial lines”he closed.
State authority “redrawing our election maps to better reflect the preferences of conservative voters in Texas, and for no other reason”reacted in the Texas Governor’s press release. said Republican Greg Abbott “Any suggestion that these cards are discriminatory is absurd”and added that Texas State would “immediately appeal to the United States Supreme Court”an organ with a conservative majority.
Maintain a slim Republican majority
Texas’ new electoral map was definitively adopted in August by the conservative, sprawling southern state’s Parliament. US President Donald Trump has openly pressured Republican Party officials to expand this region. It aims to maintain a slim Republican majority in Congress after the next legislative elections.
The predominantly Latino or African American sectors that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris won in the 2024 presidential election are fragmented and attached to swing-win districts to dilute Democratic votes and allow Republicans to gain up to five additional seats.
In response, Democrats had a bill approved by referendum in November intended to give them five additional seats in California, the nation’s most populous state, which they largely dominate. The California Republican Party, backed by the Justice Department during the Trump administration, is challenging the new divide in court.
At the heart of the debate is the partisan divide in the election, he said “conspiracy”consists of moving electoral district boundaries according to the interests of the ruling party in each state. The Supreme Court concluded in 2019 that this division was not within the jurisdiction of federal courts. However, this remains prohibited if done on the basis of race and no longer based on political affiliation, while ethnic minorities usually prefer the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
