{"id":54976,"date":"2025-11-18T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:08:08","slug":"texas-blocked-from-using-new-congressional-maps-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54976\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas blocked from using new congressional maps in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-texas-capitol-beauty-shots-_-flag-half-staff__00.03.28.26.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A federal court blocked Texas on Tuesday from using recently passed congressional maps.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The three-judge panel of the Western District of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387\/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387.1437.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ruled<\/a> that 2026 midterm elections will proceed under the map that the state legislature enacted in 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The judges said that plaintiffs are likely to prove at trial that Texas racially gerrymandered the maps passed by the Legislature in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from court documents.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/politics\/election\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A federal court blocked Texas on Tuesday from using recently passed congressional maps. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,409,223,287,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-54976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}