Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday restored for now Texas' newly redrawn congressional map that could give Republicans five additional House seats, after a lower court found that some of the new voting lines were racially discriminatory.

The high court appeared to split 6-3. It said in an unsigned order that it "has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election," and the district court "violated that rule here."

"The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections," the Supreme Court said.

The court wrote that "based on our preliminary evaluation of this case," Texas was likely to succeed

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