The U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed Texas's mid-decade redistricting plan to proceed, a decision influencing the 2026 midterm elections and leading to criticism from legal experts like Erwin Chemerinsky and Justice Elena Kagan.The 6-3 ruling, which overturned a lower court's finding of racial gerrymandering in Texas, also implicitly approved California's defensive redistricting map, despite concerns about its impact on democratic processes and electoral fairness.