Supreme Court Conservatives Hand Greg Abbott Legal Win in Redistricting War

The Supreme Court‘s conservative majority handed Texas Governor Greg Abbott a win by reversing a lower court’s judgment in a case involving congressional maps.

An order list released on Monday stated that liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the summary reversal. The justices did not file full written opinions in this case.

The legal challenge stems from Texas’s attempt to redraw its congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm election. Several non-profit organizations, including the League of United Latin American Citizens.

The nonprofits argued that Texas state legislators “made use of racial stereotypes when they described creating districts that would fulfill the political desires of Hispanic voters, but they had no information about how the Hispanic voters in those districts vote.”

Attorneys for the state argued that the district court was wrong in holding that an alternative-map requirement did not apply at the preliminary injunction stage and “failed to apply the presumption of legislative good faith.”

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This story was originally published April 27, 2026 at 10:39 AM.