{"id":77082,"date":"2025-12-05T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77082\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:24:19","slug":"texas-redistricting-supreme-court-lets-texas-use-gop-drawn-voting-map-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77082\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Redistricting: Supreme Court Lets Texas Use GOP-Drawn Voting Map for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A divided US Supreme Court cleared Texas to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map for next year\u2019s election, bolstering GOP hopes of picking up as many as five new House seats in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Over three dissents, the justices on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25a608_7khn.pdf\" title=\"order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">lifted<\/a> a lower court ruling that had blocked the map, which was drawn at President Donald Trump\u2019s behest to help Republicans try to keep their House majority in the midterm election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A divided US Supreme Court cleared Texas to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map for next year\u2019s election,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3267,16617,288,22556,24072,287,3270,5759,27,29,28,37935,23002],"class_list":["post-77082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-california","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elections","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-justice-department","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77082","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=77082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}