Many democratic-focused and civil rights groups are ready to sue on a proposed set of new Congress lines in Texas, as MPs in Lone Star State saw to pursue a GOP-friendly map before 2026.
Several groups, including the National Redistricting Foundation, the non -profit hand of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee; Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and League of United Latin American Citins (Lulac)) A proposal filed on MondayAsking a federal court in Texas to determine a different time for a hearing, once a group files an initial prohibitory order that prevents the map of the Texas House to be effective.
The filing also asks the court to “empty as” state legislative challenges, as state legislative challenges, on August 11, 2025, as an order “as an order to suspend the time limit to submit the proposed findings of the fact and law. ,
The filing said, “The map is very unconstitutional, and its implementation should be attached immediately.” “The plains intend to move their grievances faster and proceed to initial prohibition due to constitutional violations of the new map.”
The Hill Comment has arrived for spokespersons of Texas Gove Greg Abbott (R) and Texas Attorney General Kane Paxton (R).
Texas Republican seeks to pass a new home map before 2026 amidst the pressure of the White House, which aims to choose a handful of new seats next year. Texas fled the state during the first special session to deny the Democrats Republican, which was rejecting the minimum number of MPs required to operate the business.
But they finally returned to the state this week during the second special session of Republican, paving the way for a new Gerrymandred map for GOP.
In response, Democrats in California are proceeding to pass their own Germander map; The new map is expected to go in front of voters in November this. The map in California wants to neutralize the hope of making the Texas Republican with its new map.
The proposed Congress lines have upgraded only in Texas House and Texas Senate committees so far, but the proposal of groups underlined the opponents to prepare the proposed maps in the court quickly to prepare the opponents.
“Despite the bipartisan opposition between Texas, the Texas Legislature is advancing a Congress map, including less minority opportunities district than the existing discriminatory maps, which is already being challenged in the court to violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,” Marina Jenkins, the National Reedisting Foundation, said the executive director of the National Reedisting Foundation.
He said, “Governor Abbott should sign the new Gerimander in the law, NRF will quickly challenge the map in the federal court, and the court should be ready to work rapidly to intervene and protect the rights of Texas,” he said.
