The showdown over Congressional maps in Texas has landed before the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Friday, Nov. 21, Justice Samuel Alito granted the state's emergency application for an administrative stay.

In a post on "X", Attorney General Ken Paxton said this temporarily stops the injunction filed by two federal judges in Texas earlier last week that blocks the state from using its new maps approved by Texas Republicans over the summer.

Instead, the judges ordered the state to use the existing Congressional districts drawn in 2021.

Republicans had hoped the new maps would give them five extra seats in Texas. The Supreme Court will review the lower court's decision.

Lower court order

In the majority ruling, Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, said, "Substantial evidence shows that Te

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