“… The decision blocked, for now, a lower-court ruling that had said Texas could not use the map. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who is assigned to handle emergency applications from that region of the country, issued the administrative stay, a temporary ruling designed to give the full court time to consider the issue.
The Texas attorney general earlier in the evening had filed an emergency application with the justices, asking them to allow the state to use the new map.
Justice Alito requested that the civil rights groups that had challenged the map respond to the attorney general’s request by Monday at 5 p.m., signaling the court would likely consider the issue speedily.…”