A redistricting ruling means the party is unlikely to pick up new seats in the next election while new analysis shows the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the last election .

A federal court Tuesday blocked Texas from using its newly drawn congressional map in next year’s midterms, ruling that the map is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

A federal court struck down Texas’ new gerrymander on Tuesday, in an extraordinary rebuke to Republicans who sought to hand the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives. The 160-page ruling—authored by Judge Jeffrey V.

Democrats received good news this week about their chances in two Texas House races in seats won by President Donald Trump in last year’s election. Newsweek reached out to the Texas Democratic and Republican parties for comment via email.