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We won another big victory in the Supreme Court!
And it was another 6-3 decision as most have been this year. I’ll take it!
The redrawn Texas district maps were challenged in court and reached the Supreme Court, and today those maps were confirmed as legally valid!
Takeaway?
This should almost certainly bring five more seats to Republicans in the House from Texas alone!
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING – HUGE WIN AT SCOTUS: The Supreme Court has upheld Texas’ new U.S. House maps that are set to take effect in 2026, 6-3.
Huge loss for Democrats🔥
Republicans are now set to gain five more seats in the US House from the state of Texas alone. Keep… pic.twitter.com/pKrOqDyl4r
– Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) 4 December 2025
nbc news More details were:
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a new congressional district map in next year’s midterm elections that was drawn to maximize Republican political power.
Approving an emergency application filed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the conservative majority blocked a lower court ruling that said the map was unlawful because Republican lawmakers, at the direction of the Trump administration, explicitly considered race when drawing new districts.
The unsigned order states that Texas is “likely to succeed on the merits of its claim”, including that the lower court “failed to respect the presumption of legislative good faith” when assessing the state legislature’s intentions.
It appeared that the decision was 6-3, with three liberal justices dissenting.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that the decision “disrespects the work of the district court that did everything anyone could have asked” and also “disrespects the millions of Texans who the district court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
The map was drawn for the purpose of adding five additional Republican House seats that no one contested, but a lower court found that the map was drawn for the purpose of moving some minority voters to different districts.
In a separate concurring opinion, hitting back at Kagan, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that plaintiffs challenging the map need to do a better job of showing that, among other things, race was the motivating factor, by creating their own map that would show that the state’s partisan goals could be achieved in other ways.
The failure to do so “gave rise to a strong inference that the state map was actually based on partisanship, not race,” he wrote.
The decision marks a victory for President Donald Trump, who had filed a brief urging the court to rule in Texas’ favor.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defended the map, welcomed the decision.
“This map reflects our state’s political climate and is a huge victory for Texas and every conservative who is tired of seeing the left try to overturn the political system with bogus lawsuits,” he said in a statement.
Governor Greg Abbott took a victory lap on the Ax to celebrate the decision:
We won! Texas is officially and legally red.
The Supreme Court reinstated the Texas-passed congressional redistricting maps that added 5 more Republican seats.
The new maps better align our representation in DC with Texas values.
https://t.co/dsxH0XgNGs– Greg Abbott (@GregAbott_TX) 5 December 2025
Legal as we knew it was everything!
Here is the majority opinion, which you can read here if you wish: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26338616/25a608-order.pdf
Congratulations Texas!
And congratulations to America!