The Supreme Court on Thursday acted on an emergency request from Texas, approving the Republican-favored new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The justices’ order puts a hold on the attempts to block the new map from being used in upcoming elections and gives a green light to Texas Republicans whose redistricting efforts worked in their favor.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump urged members of Texas’ Republican congressional delegation to seek five new seats the GOP could win through redistricting, or redrawing the state’s congressional map.

It was a sign that Trump was looking to not repeat what happened during his first presidency, when Democrats flipped the House of Representatives’ majority two years into his term. The unusual move to redistrict mid-d

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