{"id":300202,"date":"2025-11-19T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:16:14","slug":"in-blow-to-trump-us-court-tosses-redrawn-texas-election-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300202\/","title":{"rendered":"In blow to Trump, US court tosses redrawn Texas election map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A US district court, in a setback for President Donald Trump, struck down a congressional map on Tuesday redrawn by Republicans in Texas that was intended to give the party five more likely seats in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The court ruled that the new map, which weakened five Democratic districts, could not be used in the 2026 midterm elections, where Republicans are seeking to safeguard their slim majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Democrats are eyeing a big win that would allow them to challenge the Republican president for the rest of his term.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The court said the redrawn map, which was challenged by black and Hispanic voters, amounted to illegal racial gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a split 2-1 decision, the court ordered Republican-ruled Texas to use a 2021 map for next year\u2019s congressional midterm vote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks in Dallas in December 2024. Photo: TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/523dfcd2-01fd-44cc-b872-5c83c1fbe6f1_16a20239.jpg\" title=\"Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks in Dallas in December 2024. Photo: TNS\"\/>Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks in Dallas in December 2024. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The decision, which Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he would appeal to the conservative-majority Supreme Court, is the latest development in a congressional redistricting battle between Republicans and Democrats playing out nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US district court, in a setback for President Donald Trump, struck down a congressional map on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,8833,2356,4515,12,49791,10062,5649,6747,3,2256,6454,3131,2186,720,15304,1022,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-300202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-barack-obama","tag-california","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-gene-wu","tag-greg-abbott","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-missouri","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-ohio","tag-pam-bondi","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}