My Bloomberg Law Essay on the Troubling Implications of the Court's Texas Redistricting Decision for Federal Oversight of State Election Law Changes

Here’s an excerpt from this Bloomberg Law essay I published today:

Texas’ US Supreme Court victory allowing its new congressional maps to be used for next year’s midterm elections has potentially broad implications for election law more generally.

The court’s ruling that it’s too close to the 2026 elections for the federal courts to weigh in on Texas’ new maps risks giving state legislatures excessive latitude to change election laws well in advance of elections—without fear of federal court oversight….

I want to focus here instead on the remarkable implications of the Supreme Court’s decision for the timing of when federal courts are permitted to adjudicate state election law changes.

Texas’ new map became law on Aug. 29 of this year. The plaintiffs couldn’t have moved more quickly