The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling that Texas had racially discriminated in its 2025 congressional redistricting Thursday afternoon.

On Nov. 21, Justice Samuel Alito gave Texas Republicans a partial victory when he granted an administrative stay in the case. That set aside a ruling by two federal judges in El Paso, Texas, who blocked the 2025 maps after concluding Republicans illegally racially gerrymandered the districts to potentially win up to five extra seats in Congress. The lower court judges ruled that candidates would instead have to run under the existing congressional maps drawn in 2021.

Republicans have insisted the 2025 maps were motivated by partisan gains, not race, when they redrew the districts over the summer.

"We won! Texas is officially—and legally—more red,

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