(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed Texas a win in a challenge to its new congressional redistricting maps, granting a stay of a lower court ruling blocking them from going into effect. The ruling allows Texas’ new congressional maps to remain in effect for the 2026 midterm election. The new maps could flip up to five seats currently held by Democrats to Republican, analysts say.

In a 6-3 ruling , the Supreme Court said Texas was likely to succeed on the merits of the case and the district court “committed at least two serious [legal] errors.” It also ignored Supreme Court warnings about redistricting lawsuits filed months before an election, the court said.

“This Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the e

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