President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.

In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court said a partisan redistricting case out of North Carolina raised a political, nonjusticiable question for federal courts, leaving the issue to states, their laws and their court systems to manage.

The Texas Supreme Court has granted a request for an expedited brief and review period on whether Democrats who left the state and broke quorum can be expelled from their seats, but not as fast as Gov.