**This case has been consolidated with LULAC v. Abbott. Further updates will be posted to that case page.**

Federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against new congressional and state legislative districts as a violation of Section 2 of the VRA. With respect to the congressional plan, DOJ alleges that Texas “intentionally eliminated a Latino electoral opportunity in Congressional District 23, a West Texas district where courts had identified Voting Rights Act violations during the previous two redistricting cycles. It failed to draw a seat encompassing the growing Latino electorate in Harris County. And it surgically excised minority communities from the core of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) by attaching them to heavily Anglo rural counties, some more than a hundred miles away, placing them in a congressional district where they would lack equal electoral opportunity.”