“In August 2025, the State of Texas enacted a new electoral map to govern elections for the US House of Representatives (the ‘2025 Map’). Claiming that the 2025 Map is racially discriminatory, six groups of Plaintiffs (the ‘Plaintiff Groups’) ask the Court to preliminarily enjoin the State from using the 2025 Map for the 2026 elections. For the reasons explained below, the Court PRELIMINARILY ENJOINS the State from using the 2025 Map. The Court ORDERS that the 2026 congressional election in Texas shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021 (the ‘2021 Map’),” writes El Paso US District Court Judge Jeffrey Brown in the opener to a 160-page order.
Yeah, 160 pages. Very dense. It’s not like the higher courts will NEVER overturn it but the point for the Trump and Abbott Regimes was to get these maps set before the filing deadline on December 8th. This gives Low Energy Greg less than three weeks to force the legislature in for another special session to move the primaries if an appellate court cannot intervene and overrule this order in time.
And it is ugly. The court found that the Trump Regime’s dipshit stooge Harmeet Dhillon engineered a racial gerrymandering scheme by sending Texas a legally baseless letter threatening DOJ action unless the state dismantled four districts based solely on their racial composition. When Trump’s command for a purely partisan map met resistance, Dhillon repackaged it as a civil rights issue, claiming that “coalition district” where no single minority group hit 50 percent were unconstitutional.
Abbott took the bait within 48 hours, calling a special session explicitly to satisfy DOJ’s racial objectives. The tell? Dhillon only targeted majority-non-White districts. If this were really about partisanship rather than race, Brown notes, DOJ would’ve also gone after majority-White Democratic districts. They conspicuously didn’t and here we are with three weeks to go before doomsday.
Fanboys better fucking PRAY the DOJ can uneven the score in California by overturning Prop 50.