An approaching primary election was a factor in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to set aside a lower court’s ruling that had blocked the Republican-backed map from taking effect. A key question moving forward is whether the lines were redrawn based on race or partisan politics.

The race to redraw congressional maps ahead of next year’s midterm elections continues, following a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas. Justices on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling that found some redrawn voting lines were racially discriminatory or gerrymandered.

The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration and Texas Republicans, who engineered the map to give the GOP control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts.

AUSTIN — Texas can use its newly-drawn congressional map in next year’s elections, the Supreme Court ruled, reversing a lower court ruling and dealing a victory to President Donald Trump’s hopes of keeping control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Just yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to move forward with its newly drawn gerrymandered congressional maps.

T he draw for next year’s World Cup will begin at 12 p.m. ET today, with billions of soccer fans around the globe expected to tune in. President Donald Trump will attend the ceremony at the Kennedy Center alongside a star-studded lineup of athletes, musicians and political figures.

Democratic candidate for governor Mandela Barnes is signaling support for redrawing congressional boundaries in Wisconsin.

Despite intervening the last time Florida redraw its congressional map, Gov. Ron DeSantis is leaving it up to the Legislature to take the lead on what a potential mid-decade redraw might look like. “There’s nothing that anyone on my staff has done with respect to actually doing a map,” DeSantis said in Tampa.