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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas' 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of ...

DALLAS, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Democrats launch campaigns this week for the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Democrats are planning to campaign for every statewide ...

Redistricting wars are inundating the Supreme Court. A decision could come as soon as this week on Texas’s bid to revive its GOP-friendly congressional map that set off a mid-decade redistricting ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily paused a lower court ruling that blocked a new voting map in Texas, allowing the state to proceed for now ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily permitted Texas to use Republicans' redrawn congressional map that a federal court blocked earlier this week. Alito's order comes after Texas ...

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito issued a stay halting a lower court's ruling and allowing Texas to use a new redistricting map that voting rights groups claim targets minorities.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court’s approval of Texas’s congressional map could violate voters’ rights enshrined in the Constitution ...

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a new congressional map that could help Republicans win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm election. The decision released Thursday ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas' 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Trump likely discriminates on the ...