This is just until they can make a ruling.
Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state’s request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021.
The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months; Friday’s ruling is a short-term pause while they make that decision.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the step as a victory, and said his office would “look forward to continuing to press forward in our case on the merits.”
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Alito requested that the plaintiffs respond to the motion by the end of the day Monday. The Dec. 8 candidate filing deadline is fast approaching, which the state made clear to the justices in their petition.
This came down yesterday evening – the alert for this story hit my mailbox around 7:30 PM. While I’d have preferred for SCOTUS to not take any action before they rule, I don’t think this means anything in terms of how they will eventually rule. At least we’ll get an answer quickly, which we need.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but I think it is likely that the Supreme Court Republicans of the United States (SCROTUS) will find a way to allow the red state gerrymanders while blocking California and perhaps other blue states. That is their job after all.
the injunction is intended to “pause” things just long enough tha the SCOTUS can then say it is too late to rule on changing the new districts that were “democratically” created by our republican legislature.
meanwhile, they can strike down the california changes because it is also “too late” for the democratic process to change those districts from those drawn by the independent redistricting process in that state.
neat, huh?