Challengers to Texas’ new congressional map urged the Supreme Court not to pause a lower court ruling requiring the state use its old congressional map next year, arguing in a filing Monday the ruling came with plenty of time ahead of the elections.

The court filing is the latest step in a fast-moving legal fight over whether the Lone Star State will get to use a map targeting five House seats held by Democrats in next year’s midterms.

Texas officials have appealed the 2-1 lower court ruling that found the state’s map redrawn this year is an illegal racial gerrymander and forced the state to use its prior map drawn in 2021 after the 2020 census.

The state urged the Supreme Court to act by next Monday, arguing in an application that the lower court ruling came too close to the state’

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