The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the southern state of Texas may proceed with using a controversial map of congressional districts designed to favour Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.

Thursday’s decision was split along ideological lines, with the court’s six conservative justices giving the new map the go-ahead and the three liberal ones joining together in dissent.

The ruling lifts a lower court’s order from November that had blocked Texas from using the new congressional map. The lower court had found that Texas had “racially gerrymandered” the districts, in violation of the US Constitution.

But Texas quickly filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, urging quick action to overturn the hold.

After all, it argued, campaigning for the midterm races in Nove

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