The lawsuit was filed as the Texas Legislature was nearing completion of U.S. House maps that shore up Republicans and do not add additional Latino majority districts, even though Latinos account for more than half of the state’s growth.
The Voting Rights Act protects minority voters' right to choose who represents them, whether or not that is a person of color.
In its 2013 Shelby v Holder decision, the Supreme Court essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act by nullifying Section 5 protections from discrimination. The 2020 census showed that Texas’ population grew by nearly 4 million people, making it the only state to add two congressional seats because of population growth.
The lawsuit also argues that the 2020 census shows that court-ordered maps that were used in the 2020 general election “do not reflect the population shifts that occurred within the last decade and are unconstitutionally malapportioned.” MALDEF filed the lawsuit Monday even as it is resolving payment of attorneys’ fees form a decade-old suit it filed against Texas over its last round of redistricting.
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