Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Texas's Discriminatory Congressional Map
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court today granted a preliminary injunction blocking Texas's new congressional redistricting map from taking effect, finding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed in proving that the map unlawfully targets minority voters in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit and motion for preliminary injunction filed by Elias Law Group attorneys representing the Gonzales Plaintiffs, a group of thirteen Black and Latino voters in Texas who stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting that deliberately dismantled majority-minority congressional districts.
"Today's decision is a critical victory for voting rights and a powerful rebuke of Texas's brazen attempt to dilute the political power of Latino and Black voters," said Elias Law Group partner Abha Khanna. "It has been clear from the beginning that this mid-decade redistricting was a targeted attack on minority communities' constitutional rights.”
As the Court wrote: “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
The court's decision follows a 10-day preliminary injunction hearing in October where plaintiffs presented overwhelming evidence that Texas lawmakers explicitly used racial data to target and dismantle majority-minority congressional districts across the state of Texas.
This preliminary injunction prohibits Texas from implementing its discriminatory congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections.
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