Three Supreme Court justices issued a blistering dissent on Thursday to yet another unsigned order from the high court.
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the new election map its Republican-controlled legislature drew during a special session during the 2026 midterm. The new map is designed to eliminate five Democrat-controlled districts, but a lower court ruled that the map was a racial gerrymander, which violates the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a scathing dissent that argued the court had “lost sight of its purpose.”
“And this Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequences,” Kagan wrote. “The majority calls its ‘evaluation’ of this case ‘preliminary.’ The results, though, will be anything but.”
“This Court’s stay guarantees that Texas’s new map, with all its enhanced partisan advantage, will govern next year’s elections for the House of Representatives,” she continued. “And this Court’s stay ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race. And that result, as this Court has pronounced year in and year out, is a violation of the Constitution.”
Read the entire dissent by clicking here.
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