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LetMyPeopleVote

(172,799 posts) Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:32 PM 3 hrs ago

Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections

This will be fun to watch. Candidates are filing for the March primaries now

ALERT: Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections

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— Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) 2025-11-18T18:20:12.506Z

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-congressional-map-2026-judge-blocks/

Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Texas from using its newly redrawn congressional map in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown ordered the state to instead use House district lines adopted by the Texas legislature in 2021 for next year's congressional elections.

The decision from Brown is likely to be appealed, but it marks an early blow for Republicans and President Trump, who had urged Texas state lawmakers to engage in a mid-decade redrawing of their House map in order to bolster the GOP's chances of holding onto its majority in the lower chamber.

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Judge blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 3 hrs ago OP

Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms LetMyPeopleVote 2 hrs ago #1

This ruling is going to affect a number of Texas races LetMyPeopleVote 2 min ago #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:35 PM

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The decision is a major blow for Republicans, including President Donald Trump, who had pushed Texas’ GOP leaders to draw new lines to help protect the party’s narrow U.S. House majority.

Breaking: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms.
— Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) 2025-11-18T18:30:03.820Z

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/texas-redistricting-ruling-lawsuit-el-paso-court-2026-midterms/

Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday.

The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts — up from the 25 they currently hold — and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House.

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

Brown ordered that the 2026 congressional election “shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021.” The case will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but time is short: Candidates only have until Dec. 8 to file for the upcoming election.......

It was not immediately clear if the state still has a legal path to restoring the new map in time for 2026. Unlike most federal lawsuits, which are heard by a single district judge and then appealed to a circuit court, voting rights lawsuits are initially heard by two district judges and one circuit judge, and their ruling can only be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. This ruling is going to affect a number of Texas races

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:04 PM

2 min ago

Al Green is one of the plaintiffs in this case and was one of the main targets of this redistricting scam. I have known Al for 20 or so years and has work on voter protection efforts with Al. Al represents CD 9 but was redistricted so that much of his district is now in CD 18. Al is currently going to run in CD 18 which was Sylvester Turner's district. Abbott has been an asshole and has kept this seat open for 11 months. There will be a runoff on January 31 between two great young democrats, Christen Menefee and Amanda Edwards. The winner and loser of that runoff would then have to run against Al Green in the March primary.

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Jasime Crockett was also targeted and there were rumors that she may run for Texas Senate. If this ruling stand, Jasime will not have to change offices.

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In another race, Lloyd Doggett's and another younger democrat's district were in effect merged and Lloyd was going to retire. If this ruling stand, Lloyd does not have to retire

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Finally, Al's old district was redrawn to be a very white district and an asshole name Briscoe Cain was going to run in that district. Cain is a real asshole and I would hate to see him in Congress. Here what Cain posted about this ruling

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I am really hoping that this ruling stands

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