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The Supreme Court’s emergency order this week is a huge win for voters and for common-sense governance: the justices allowed Texas to move forward with the legislature’s new congressional map — a plan that should net Republicans roughly five more House seats come the 2026 midterms. Conservatives who have argued that states, not activist judges, should set election rules breathed a sigh of relief as the Court emphasized that lower courts should not rewrite maps on the eve of an election.
This decision wasn’t some neutral technocratic tweak — it was a rebuke to the lower court’s rush to substitute its judgment for that of the people’s elected representatives, and a recognition that partisan politics and racial demographics are not the same thing. The majority correctly reminded the nation that the presumption of legislative good faith is a bedrock principle, and that sweeping, last-minute judicial interventions do far more damage to the electoral process than any reasonable map redraw.
Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans were right to stand firm, and the ruling vindicates their effort to align representation in Washington with the values and voters of Texas. Abbott’s office framed the decision as a restoration of Texas’s right to draw fair, accountable districts, and statewide conservatives are rightly celebrating a judicial check on weaponized litigation that seeks to overturn democratic outcomes.
At the same time Governor Abbott has been unafraid to confront other threats to public safety and liberty, including his recent moves to put the Council on American-Islamic Relations on notice and to press state investigations into the so-called EPIC City development outside Dallas. Those actions have sparked fierce pushback from national civil-rights groups and local Muslim leaders who call the investigations politically motivated, but Abbott says he is simply enforcing the law and protecting Texans.
Critics will howl that this is fearmongering, but the public has a right to demand transparency and legal compliance from any project that raises serious regulatory and community questions. Multiple state agencies have launched reviews into EPIC City over permitting and other concerns, and Republican leaders in Texas have insisted on accountability instead of rush-to-approval special treatment for politically connected developers. If the goal is safe, lawful neighborhoods built on American principles, then ordinary citizens should expect their governor to act.
This is a moment for patriots to stand up and cheer a conservative Supreme Court that refuses to let activist judges and left-wing lawsuits redraw the landscape of power without consequence. The map fight in Texas is part of a larger national contest over who decides the rules of our republic — and by backing the legislature’s map and defending state oversight, conservatives are taking the fight to the right place: the ballot box, where voters decide, not the courthouse, where political outcomes are often manufactured.
