CASE SUMMARY
On January 12, 2022, the sitting U.S. Representative for Texas’s 16th Congressional District filed a federal lawsuit against Texas’s Governor and Secretary of State challenging the state’s new congressional redistricting plan as intentionally discriminatory against Latino voters in violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and as resulting in the dilution of Latino voters’ voting strength in violation of § 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act (“VRA”). They sought a declaratory judgment the plan was unconstitutional and unlawful and a preliminary and permanent injunction barring the plan from use in future elections.
- On January 12, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas consolidated this action with several other pending challenges to Texas’s redistricting plans: League of United Latin Am. Citizens v. Abbott; Wilson v. Texas; Voto Latino v. Scott; Mexican Am. Legislative Caucus v. Texas; Brooks v. Abbott; Fair Maps Texas Action Comm. v. Abbott; Texas State Conf. of the NAACP v. Abbott; United States v. Texas; & Fischer v. Scott.
- On June 23, 2022, the case was dismissed upon voluntarily dismissal by the plaintiff.
CASE LIBRARY
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division - No. 3:22-cv-22 [consolidated with 3:21-cv-259, 1:21-cv-943, 1:21-cv-965, 1:21-cv-988, 1:21-cv-991, 1:21-cv-1006, 1:21-cv-1038, 3:21-cv-299, & 3:21-cv-306]
- Complaint - 1/12/22
- Order Constituting Three-Judge Court - 1/13/22
- Order Dismissing Claims - 6/23/22