JUDICIAL TYRANNY: Judges Block Redrawn Districts in Texas

Here we are: blue states have redrawn their maps to wipe out Republican representation entirely, even when a large share of their population is Republican. Nearly 40% of Massachusetts voters voted for Trump — yet has zero Republican congressional districts. California just rammed through a new map in an illegal, rigged process. And somehow, they’re being allowed to get away with it.

Blue states are openly erased Republicans from the map. Where was the GOP while this was happening?

If state legislatures are supposed to control redistricting, how is it that their authority — and the will of the voters — can be overturned by judicial fiat?

This Texas power grab will go to the Supreme Court but in time for the 2026 election?

BREAKING: A federal judge has just BLOCKED Texas from implementing their new Congressional maps, which would add 5 Republican House seats

Yet CALIFORNIA is being allowed to get away with it.

THIS JUDICIAL TYRANNY MUST END! pic.twitter.com/55Let6jtA5

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 18, 2025

Texas AG Ken Paxton : The radical left is once again trying to undermine the will of the people. The Big Beautiful Map was entirely legal and passed for partisan purposes to better represent the political affiliations of Texas. For years, Democrats have engaged in partisan redistricting intended to eliminate Republican representation. Democratic states across the country, from California to Illinois to New York, have systematically reduced representation of Republican voters in their congressional delegations. But when Republicans respond in kind, Democrats rely on false accusations of racism to secure a partisan advantage. I will be appealing this decision to the Supreme Court of the United States, and I fully expect the Court to uphold Texas’s sovereign right to engage in partisan redistricting.

https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1990868511464329395?s=20

Donald Trump
Federal judges block Texas from using redrawn congressional map

The federal panel of judges say Texas’ map is ‘racially gerrymandered’

By Breanne Deppisch , Paul Steinhauser , Anders Hagstrom Fox News, November 18, 2025 4:00pm EST

A panel of three federal judges on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map drawn by Republicans in hopes of securing the party additional seats in the 2026 midterm elections, ruling 2-1 that the map in question appeared to constitute an illegal, race-based gerrymander.

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, said in the majority opinion, joined by U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama, an Obama appointee.

“To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map,” the judges said. “But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”

The ruling is a significant blow to the Trump administration. It comes as President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have raced to pad the party’s razor-thin House majority in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections — including by imploring some states to launch rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts.

As part of that push, legislators in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio have each redrawn their congressional maps.

Other states, including Florida and Kansas, are currently weighing similar efforts.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed on Tuesday to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court for review. He said Texas would also be seeking an emergency stay from the high court to would temporarily stay the lower court’s ruling.

“For years, Democrats have engaged in partisan redistricting intended to eliminate Republican representation,” Paxton said. “But when Republicans respond in kind, Democrats rely on false accusations of racism to secure a partisan advantage.”

Gov. Greg Abbott sharply criticized the court’s ruling Tuesday, saying in a statement that Texas legislators “redrew our congressional maps to better reflect Texans’ conservative voting preferences — and for no other reason.”

“Any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd and unsupported by the testimony offered during ten days of hearings,” he added.

The 2-1 ruling comes after a nearly two-week trial in El Paso, Texas, and requires lawmakers in the Lone Star State to revert to an earlier congressional map that the state legislature had adopted in 2021.

The new congressional map in Texas would have redrawn five districts in the state to be more favorable to Republicans.

Senior Democratic Party officials, for their part, praised the ruling as a victory for the party — and for the Democrats in the state legislature, who broke quorum for two weeks earlier this year in a bid to stave off the bill’s passage.

“Texas Democrats and the DNC fought valiantly for fair representation, and now, with this decision, the court has ruled that Texas Republicans cannot implement this blatant gerrymander in the next election,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement.

The push from Trump allies is seen by many as an effort to avoid a repeat of the 2018 midterm elections, which saw Democrats retake the House majority.

The party in power tends to lose more seats during midterm elections, as was the case with Democrats during the 2010 midterms, when Republicans wrested back a strong House majority.

“We must keep the majority at all costs,” Trump said on Monday.

It is unclear if the Supreme Court would agree to take up the appeal from Texas, or to grant the emergency stay Paxton vowed to seek.

But it comes at a time when the Supreme Court is actively weighing the states’ use of race in the drawing of congressional maps. Justices heard a second round of oral arguments last month in Lousiana v. Callais, a case centered on that very issue.