The Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order barring Texas from using its new congressional map for the 2026 elections after the state filed an emergency petition to the high court Friday evening.

Justice Samuel Alito , who oversees the judicial circuit in which the case originated, granted an administrative stay of a lower court’s ruling ordering that the state use the congressional map passed in 2021 for the 2026 elections. Alito’s order means that the new Texas congressional map has been temporarily restored for the 2026 election while the full Supreme Court considers the emergency petition.

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