Overview
- An El Paso-based federal court enjoined Texas’s 2025 redistricting law, barring its use in the 2026 midterm elections.
- The panel concluded the map disadvantaged Black and Hispanic voters and sided with civil-rights groups that sued.
- Texas must run its 2026 U.S. House elections under the state’s 2021 district boundaries, per the order.
- Governor Greg Abbott said he will appeal, after Republicans expected the new map could yield up to five additional seats.
- The decision lands as Republicans pursue new maps in Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio, and as California’s changes face GOP legal challenges.