{"id":192857,"date":"2025-12-08T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-supreme-court-gives-texas-win-in-national-redistricting-battle-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:41:17","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-us-supreme-court-gives-texas-win-in-national-redistricting-battle-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-supreme-court-gives-texas-win-in-national-redistricting-battle-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: US supreme court gives Texas win in national redistricting battle – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

State is key in president\u2019s effort to secure Republicans\u2019 fragile House majority for second half of his term \u2013 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> a major win in his push to boost Republican seats ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections.
In an unsigned order, the 6-3 conservative majority court granted a request by Texas<\/a> to lift a lower court\u2019s ruling that struck down the state\u2019s new map in November. The supreme court\u2019s three liberal justices dissented.
\u201cThe district court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections,\u201d the supreme court said in an order explaining its decision.
The ruling comes amid a nationwide battle over the redrawing of electoral maps. Texas is a key piece in Trump\u2019s effort to transform the US House map to secure Republicans\u2019 fragile House majority for the second half of his presidential term. Democrats need to flip only a handful of congressional seats to win the House gavel, and the opposition party has historically gained ground during the midterm elections, particularly if the president\u2019s approval ratings are low, as Trump\u2019s are.
The lower district court had previously found that Texas had probably sorted voters based on their race \u2013 an unlawful practice called racial gerrymandering \u2013 when it adopted the new maps, and ordered the state to use the maps it had adopted after the 2020 census for next year\u2019s election.
In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Elena Kagan objected to the decision by the supreme court\u2019s majority, arguing that it disrespected the work of the lower court, whose ruling actually was authored by a judge appointed by Trump.
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The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military\u2019s southern command had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific.
The latest operation comes as the Pentagon and the White House have struggled to answer questions about the legality of the campaign to kill suspected drug smugglers with military strikes.
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According to<\/a> the Washington Post, which first reported the news on Thursday and cited three people familiar with the matter, architect James McCrery II and his boutique firm had been leading the project for more than three months, up until late October.
It is unclear whether McCrery chose to step aside voluntarily. However, one source noted that he and Trump parted on good terms.
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A grand jury declined to indict Letitia James <\/a>on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the decision, which came less than two weeks after a judge ruled a similar mortgage fraud case brought by federal prosecutors against the New York attorney general was unlawful.
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US authorities have made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington DC<\/a> on the eve of 6 January 2021, according to reports on Thursday morning.
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In a written order, the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit lifted an injunction that said the troops needed to leave the nation\u2019s capital by 11 December.
The DC circuit\u2019s order, while not a final judgment, allows Trump to continue a deployment he began this summer and has ramped up in response to a 26 November shooting of two national guard members near the White House.
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Any Lucia L\u00f3pez Belloza had not seen her parents and two little sisters since starting her first semester at Babson college, near Boston in August. A family friend gave her plane tickets so she could fly home to Austin and surprise them for Thanksgiving. But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported<\/a> to her native Honduras<\/a>, a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.
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Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d were shackled inside a 2ft high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published on Thursday<\/a> by Amnesty International alleges.
The human rights group said migrants held at the state-run Everglades facility, and at Miami\u2019s Krome immigration processing center operated by a private company on behalf of the Trump administration, continue to be exposed to \u201ccruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\u201d rising in some cases to torture.
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The New York Times<\/a> said it is suing<\/a> the US defense department and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, after the Trump administration imposed restrictions for the press on access privileges and source-based reporting at the Pentagon.
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Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had not ordered the military to kill surviving members of a deadly attack on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean<\/a><\/strong>, but differed over whether the double strike was appropriate.
The Department of Defense\u2019s inspector general released the much-anticipated unclassified report on Thursday about Hegseth\u2019s disclosure of plans for military airstrikes in Yemen in a Signal group chat earlier this year<\/a><\/strong>.
Dozens of people have been detained across the New Orleans area<\/a><\/strong> as the Trump administration\u2019s latest sweeping federal immigration crackdown in a Democratic-led city entered its second day.
After a contentious meeting, vaccine advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted on Thursday to delay a vote on restricting hepatitis B vaccination for infants until Friday<\/a><\/strong>.
Maurene Comey<\/a>, the federal prosecutor who helmed criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, appeared at Manhattan federal court on Thursday, in a lawsuit claiming she was fired as political retaliation against her father, James Comey.<\/a><\/strong>
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 3 December 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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