The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for Texas to use its new congressional map in the upcoming 2026 midterms, granting a major victory to President<\/p>\n
Donald Trump and GOP leaders who have pushed a nationwide strategy of mid-decade redistricting to shore up Republican control of the House.<\/p>\n
The unsigned order blocks a lower federal court ruling that found the map likely unconstitutional on racial-gerrymandering grounds and said the boundaries could not be used.<\/p>\n
The ruling, which arrived just days before Texas\u2019s December 8 candidate filing deadline, means the state can proceed with a map expected to flip as many as five Democratic-held seats into the Republican column. With Republicans currently clinging to a narrow majority, those pickups could determine the balance of power for the final two years of Trump\u2019s presidency. READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for Texas to use its new congressional map in the upcoming 2026 midterms, granting a major victory to President… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topdailystory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}