By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to revive a voting map designed to boost the number of Republicans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state and help President Donald Trump’s party keep control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections.

State officials asked the justices to halt a lower court’s ruling that blocked the map approved in August by the Texas legislature, with Trump’s support, that redrew the boundaries of several U.S. House of Representatives districts in the state.

The lower court concluded that the map likely was racially discriminatory in violation of U.S. constitutional protections.

In its filing, Texas said the lower court made multiple legal errors and is causing chaos du

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