On Monday, MSN reported that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the Texas redistricting maps.

The article reports:

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) sided with Texas, upholding its redistricting Monday.

The five-to-three decision ruled in favor of reversing the District Court’s judgment, according to the orders of the court issued through its controversial shadow docket.

The now-reversed District Court’s judgment sided with the plaintiff, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), that Texas’ 2025 congressional map, enacted mid-decade in August 2025, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The case was appealed to SCOTUS, which made its decision “for the reasons” described in SCOTUS’ response to a December application for a stay.

The court’s preliminary evaluation then determined that Texas satisfied the traditional criteria for interim relief, citing two serious errors of the District Court, and because the “trial court base[d] its findings upon a mistaken impression of applicable legal principles.”

On Monday, Fox News reported:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, had asked the Supreme Court last year to pause a three-judge panel’s ruling in the Western District of Texas that found 2-1 that race was too much of a factor in its redraw.

The Department of Justice also chimed in, telling the high court to intervene and reverse the decision, saying Texas’ choice to change its map was driven by purely “partisan objectives,” not racial objectives, which could violate the Voting Rights Act.

The voting rights groups who challenged Texas and Abbott claimed that the map was an illegal racial gerrymander, but the high court found in December 6-3 that the groups could not offer an alternative map that served Texas’ political needs.

I would like to mention that the New England states–Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maine have Congressional Districts set up so that there are no Republican Representatives from those states. The Republicans in those states have no representation in Congress. The Democrats have no room to talk about gerrymandering (a tactic that began in Massachusetts).