Rockwall, TX – November 19, 2025 – GOP Candidate for Congress Darrell Day on Tuesday said the ruling on congressional redistricting by a three-judge panel is “only a speedbump” to the plan approved overwhelmingly by the Texas Legislature.
“Once again, judges are attempting to act like kings and try to impose their will,” Day said in assessing the ruling. “This map was approved by a Texas House voted in by more than 6 million Texans voters, and then approved by a Governor who was voted in by 4.3 million Texas voters. Basically, two guys in robes want to subvert the will of the people. Also, a previous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 held that congressional map boundaries are political questions.”
In the Texas House, the redistricting map was approved in August by a vote of 88-52 before passing the Senate 19-2, and then signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Day predicted, “This will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will follow the intent of the U.S. Constitution in upholding the responsibility of legislatures to prescribe the manner of elections. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that drawing the maps is a political question, so these three judges are only a speedbump toward the quick final approval by the Supreme Court.”
Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.”
A former City Councilman and Republican Precinct Chairman, Day was the GOP Nominee in Congressional District 32 in 2024, winning the GOP Primary Runoff by 30 points, 65% to 35%. CD32 was one of the districts redrawn by the Texas Legislature.
The El Paso appeals court said Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021. Day said, “This interim ruling from El Paso will be hailed by the media as a huge story, because the liberal media wants to hurt Republicans. The media generally is ignoring that Republicans drew a map that created a new Hispanic-majority district, and two new Black-majority districts.”
A coalition of civil rights groups argued the new map reduced the influence of minority voters. But Texas Republicans said they drew the new map this year only for partisan advantage, following a 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court that partisan gerrymandering is a political question and not a question for the courts.
Submitted by Dean Rider, Outreach Coordinator
