President Trump’s insistence that Texas Republicans redraw their House map before the 2026 midterms is looking like it could backfire in a big way. A federal court on Tuesday struck down the new map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The dispute is a legal hash, but it suggests the GOP didn’t look before leaping into a mid-decade gerrymander free-for-all.
Mr. Trump saw redistricting Texas as an easy way to pick up five GOP House seats next year. At first state officials resisted. They jumped on board after the Justice Department sent the state a letter in July, claiming “serious concerns regarding the legality” of House seats that Texas drew in 2021, after the last Census. The DOJ said those seats were “coalition districts,” in which two or more minority groups add up to a majority. The letter called this a violation of the law and constitution.
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