A federal court’s surprise decision to block Texas Republicans from using their newly-drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections has turned what began as an aggressive mid-decade redistricting offensive into a far murkier fight over who controls the House next year.

The ruling, handed down Tuesday by a three-judge panel in El Paso , orders Texas to revert to the congressional lines it used in 2022 and 2024, at least for now. The court concluded that the 2025 map, pushed through the legislature at President Donald Trump ’s urging, was an unlawful racial gerrymander rather than a run-of-the-mill partisan redraw.

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