
The Hill - 6 hours 11 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court's approval of Texas's congressional map could violate voters' rights enshrined in the Constitution. In her dissent with fellow liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kagan wrote that the high court intervened "based on its perusal, over a...

The Hill - 6 hours 57 min ago
The Trump administration brought an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court Friday in a case concerning immigration judges' free speech rights that poses wide implications for federal employees. The application does not yet ask for a ruling on the free speech issue. Instead, the administration wants the justices to spurn a lower court for allowing the...

Nation Review - 7 hours 3 sec ago
Although the case centers on a relatively narrow question, the outcome's implications could be far-reaching.

Esquire - 7 hours 3 min ago
Chief Justice John Roberts and the carefully manufactured conservative majority have dealt another deadly blow to voting rights.

The New Yorker - 7 hours 19 min ago
The California congressman talks with David Remnick about federal authorities' inquiry into his mortgage, the Supreme Court's primary role in enabling this Administration, and why he thinks the rule of law in America is "hanging by a thread."...

ABC News - 11 hours 12 min ago
The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year's election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race...

Mother Jones - 11 hours 27 min ago
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death penalty case that will decide whether intellectual disability can be ruled out on the basis of IQ tests alone. Long before he was convicted of murder in 1997, Joseph Clifton Smith was placed in schooling for an intellectual disability. Smith […]...

The Guardian - 11 hours 33 min ago
Major win for Trump as majority rejects lower-court ruling that found maps had been racially gerrymandered. Plus, the story of Mr DeepFakes, the world's most notorious AI porn site Good morning. Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts, the supreme court ruled yesterday, handing Donald Trump a major win in his push to boost Republican seats ahead of next year's midterm elections. What did the lower court rule? The lower...

NBC News - 11 hours 48 min ago
The Supreme Court allows Texas to use its new congressional district map in the latest attempt to secure a midterm edge.

The Hill - 12 hours 4 min ago
Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: Democrats demanding more info from Hegseth Trump housing official under investigation House, Senate tee up health care votes First phase of Gaza ceasefire nears completion President Trump scored a major win in the national redistricting battle on Thursday, as...

Fortune - 12 hours 54 min ago
Using various other justifications, the White House can implement its tariffs regardless of a Supreme Court loss, said Bessent.

Slate - 13 hours 17 min ago
The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.

NPR - 13 hours 59 min ago
The Supreme Court has given the Republican Party a boost in the redistricting fight for Congress by allowing a Texas map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in next year's midterms.

UPI - 18 hours 26 min ago
The conservative-leaning Supreme Court on Thursday permitted Texas to use new congressional maps in the next midterm elections that were redrawn to favor the Republican Party.

BBC - 21 hours 1 min ago
The electoral map could boost the Republican effort to shore up their majority in the coming 2026 midterm elections.

The Guardian - 21 hours 8 min ago
This live blog is now closed. Trump news at a glance: US supreme court gives Texas win in national redistricting battle Among the beneficiaries of Donald Trump 's pardons and commutations, there is a group that legal experts and political scientists see as some of the clearest evidence of how such actions undermine the rule of law: those who were released from prison and again arrested for different alleged crimes . During his first term, Trump issued 237 acts of clemency including to someone...

Nation Review - 21 hours 46 min ago
It's not the Court's job to impose rules that Congress hasn't written. Under the rules we have, there's no legal reason to delay the use of the new Texas map.

The Guardian - 21 hours 51 min ago
State is key in president's effort to secure Republicans' fragile House majority for second half of his term key US politics stories from 4 December 2025 Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts, the supreme court ruled on Thursday, handing Donald Trump a major win in his push to boost Republican seats ahead of next year's midterm elections. In an unsigned order, the 6-3 conservative majority court granted a request...

Newser - 22 hours 42 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas can go ahead with its new congressional district map in the 2026 midterm elections, a redrawing intended to boost Republican strength in the US House by as many as five seats at President Trump's behest. The decision, apparently on a 6-3 vote, granted...

New York Magazine - 22 hours 51 min ago
With Texas again poised to give Republicans five new House seats, the drive to protect the GOP from the wrath of voters has new life.

Daily Signal - 23 hours 34 min ago
The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ redistricting maps to remain in place for the 2026 midterms in a 6-3 unsigned opinion Thursday. The maps could grant... Read More The post BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Texas Redistricting Maps for 2026 Midterms appeared first on The Daily Signal .