Hours after federal judges blocked Texas from using a newly drawn Congressional map, state leaders filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown ordered Texas to use House district lines adopted in 2021 for next year's congressional elections.
Republicans who were planning to run for newly gerrymandered districts may have to reassess, while Democrats who were drawn out of their seats could suddenly have a path back to Congress.
A list of federal, state and county offices up for election for the Texas 2026 March primaries and November general elections. Here's what to know.
But the new congressional map in California, which was created in a direct rebuttal to those gerrymandering efforts and overwhelmingly approved by voters earlier this month, is still in full swing.
Christian Menefee, the county attorney of Harris County, and attorney Amanda Edwards advanced to the runoff, NBC News projects.