The US Supreme Court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map designed to bolster Republican representation in the House of Representatives, as the party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the upcoming November midterm elections.
The court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, made permanent an interim decision from December to revive the map of US House districts in Texas. The reinstated map, signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott after approval by the state legislature in August 2025, could flip up to five currently Democratic-held seats to Republicans.
The three liberal justices dissented from the ruling, as they did in December. The Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision that had blocked the map, which the lower court found likely to be racially discriminatory in violation of constitutional protections.
In February, the Supreme Court allowed California to use a new map designed to give Democrats five additional seats, following that Democratic-led state’s redistricting in response to Texas’s actions.
Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. Losing control of either the House or Senate to Democrats in the elections would endanger President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda and open the door to Democratic-led congressional investigations.
