Texas' gerrymandered congressional maps are blocked. What happens now?

After a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday that Texas cannot use its new congressional map for next year’s election, all eyes turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide whether to allow the ruling to stand.

The judges ordered Texas to instead use the map it drew in 2021, which favors Republicans but not as aggressively as the 2025 map.

What happens next will likely unroll in two key steps. First, the state is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause the ruling, which would allow Texas to use the more recent map while the appeal plays out.

Then, they will ask the high court to rule on the merits of the case — did Texas disenfranchise voters of color when redrawing its maps this year?




https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2025/11/19/redistricting-maps-supreme-court-whats-next/