JC Marquez Jr 
TEXAS – The United States Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s efforts to challenge Texas’s newly drawn congressional district maps in a 6-3 ruling on Monday as the November midterms approach.
In mid-August, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 4 into law that would redraw maps for the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming November elections.
As previously covered, cities such as Mission and McAllen would move from District 15 to District 28 and cities such as Mercedes, Donna and Weslaco will change to District 15 from District 34.
However civil rights groups such as LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) argue the maps were a “cover for discriminatory motives.”
Followed by a three-judge panel, it suggested that the new maps, “enacted a particular voting scheme as a purposeful device to minimize or cancel out the voting potential of racial or ethnic minorities.”
The U.S. Supreme Court would later stay the case back in December of 2025.
Redistricting maps are commonly updated every 10 years to adjust the population of residents in the state after every new census. With the recent update, the redraw will be in use until 2030.
