Federal Judges Block New Texas Congressional Map.

[0311]

A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/federal-judges-block-new-texas-congressional-map-00656680

In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.

“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal. Texas wanted lily white Congressional Districts and got them.

 

[WEATHER53]

More judicial arrogance and overstepping

 

[TheGreatSatan]

A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/federal-judges-block-new-texas-congressional-map-00656680

In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.

“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal. Texas wanted lily white Congressional Districts and got them.

^^^ racist

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I assume the swamp WILL NOT do the same thing for the California redistricting, which is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[M14 Shooter]

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal.

See? All you do is lie.
The state of TX will appeal this, not Trump.

 

[martybegan]

A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/federal-judges-block-new-texas-congressional-map-00656680

In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.

“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal. Texas wanted lily white Congressional Districts and got them.

This will all be moot when the SC decides that gerrymandering based on race is unconstitutional.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

Of course it is – typical of the racist right.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Excellent news.



Now California's new map needs to be blocked as well.

 

[Cellblock2429]

A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/federal-judges-block-new-texas-congressional-map-00656680

In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.

“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal. Texas wanted lily white Congressional Districts and got them.

/---/ But no legal action on California's race based redistricting.

 

[Marener]

This will all be moot when the SC decides that gerrymandering based on race is unconstitutional.

Did you mean to say that SCOTUS will decide that race based gerrymandering is constitutional? Or to say that the Civil Rights Act prohibitions on race based gerrymandering are unconstitutional?

 

[Marener]

/---/ But no legal action on California's race based redistricting.

Who said that California's redistricting was race based? They say it was politically based.

 

[martybegan]

Did you mean to say that SCOTUS will decide that race based gerrymandering is constitutional? Or to say that the Civil Rights Act prohibitions on race based gerrymandering are unconstitutional?

That all gerrymandering will now be equal, based on politics as it should be.

 

[August West]

See? All you do is lie.
The state of TX will appeal this, not Trump.

They promised to secede when a Black President was elected. Go already!!!

 

[berg80]

Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 elections​

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

In a decision authored by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, the court ordered the state to instead use House district lines adopted by the Texas legislature in 2021 for next year's congressional elections. The dispute was heard by a three-judge panel, which divided 2-1 in finding that voting rights groups that challenged the map were likely to prove that the 2025 map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

MSN

It ain't over 'til it's over with the SC in Don's back pocket. The thing is, the court's conservatives may have put themselves in a box by ruling a few years ago that matters of redistricting are not within their purview.

 

[OODA_Loop]

From the linked article:

The decision from Brown is likely to be appealed,

 

[berg80]

Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts​

Like I said.

 

[berg80]

From the linked article:

The decision from Brown is likely to be appealed,

Imagine my surprise.

 

[elektra]

We are ruled by unelected judges. A president is subservient to the Judicial and legislative branches of government. Unless of course the president is a democrat

 

[berg80]

The panel of three federal judges in El Paso, in a 2-to-1 decision, sided with civil rights groups that had sued to invalidate the map, which was part of Texas’s aggressive mid-decade push to draw new congressional boundaries at Mr. Trump’s behest.

“The Court orders that the 2026 congressional election in Texas shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021,” the court said, issuing a preliminary injunction barring the use of the map drawn this summer.

In a 160-page opinion, the court found that “substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.” The court cited a July letter from the Justice Department to Texas lawmakers, focused on the racial makeup of districts, in which federal prosecutors said the state’s existing map was unconstitutional because it included districts where no ethnic group had an outright majority. The court said that was a “legally incorrect assertion.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-map-ruling-redistricting.html

Of course, if the case ends up being decided by the TX SC it will ignore the evidence of racial gerrymandering and find for the R's.

 

[Edgetho]

A panel of federal judges has blocked Texas’ newly-redrawn congressional map — which made five districts in the state more favorable to Republicans — saying the plan appeared to be an illegal race-based gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/federal-judges-block-new-texas-congressional-map-00656680

In a 2-1 ruling, the court ordered Texas to rely instead on the boundaries legislators drew in 2021. The new map, the majority concluded, appears likely to be unconstitutional and was drawn at the urging of the Trump administration.

“The map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor — the 2025 Map — achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Galveston-based Trump appointee, wrote for the panel majority.

NOt surprising at all. 47 will appeal. Texas wanted lily white Congressional Districts and got them.

Percent of Conservative Voters in The Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts -- 40%
Percent of Republican Congressional Representatives -- 0%

New Yawk voted 45% for Trump but dimocrap FILTH have 72% of the congressional districts locked up.

Eat a bag of dicks.