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OAN Staff Sophia Flores
6:45 PM – Tuesday, November 18, 2025
A three-judge District Court panel has ruled against implementing Texas’ new congressional maps for the 2026 midterms, dealing a major setback to Republicans who were looking to net more seats and maintain their narrow House majority in the upcoming election.
On Tuesday, in the majority opinion written by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, it was ordered that the newly adopted redistricting plan become void — as he claimed it is racially gerrymandered.
“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map,” Brown wrote. “But it was more than much just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) released a statement after the federal court’s ruling, calling the action “absurd.”
“The Legislature redrew our congressional maps to better reflect Texans’ conservative voting preferences – and for no other reason. Any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd and unsupported by the testimony offered during ten days of hearings. This ruling is clearly erroneous and undermines the authority the U.S. Constitution assigns to the Texas Legislature by imposing a different map by judicial edict. The State of Texas will swiftly appeal to the United States Supreme Court.”
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In addition, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took to X to share that she was disappointed with the ruling as well.
“We strongly disagree with today’s district court ruling on Texas’s redistricting map – Texas’s map was drawn the right way for the right reasons. We look forward to Texas’s victory at the Supreme Court.”
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