((The hill) – The efforts to pull congress cards in Texas and beyond again A flood of legal disputes As a Republican and Democrats, try to add 2026 pickup opportunities in the house.
Several groups filed complaints against the congress cards in TexasThey try to bring five other places for Republicans into the game that go into the middle of next year and argue that the card is unconstitutional and violates the law on voting rights.
In several other states, including Louisiana and North Dakota, however, there could be significant effects on the voting law law and who can bring these complaints primarily – decisions that could have consequences for future cards.
Here is a look at five legal redistribution fights that you should watch:
Texas
A handful of groups have sued the fresh house lines in Texas, which were approved this summer, which would offer five pick -up options in the house for the GOP in 2026.
The league of the United Latin American Citizens (Lulac) and the Mexican-American legal defense and educational funds, some of the groups that sued the cards, had sued in 2021 because of the state legislative and congress limits, they had an argument that they had undergone the law on voting rights and were unconstitutional.
In submitted a complementary complaint When the Republicans in Texas wanted to drive their fresh house menu this year, Lulac and other groups argued that the fresh congress cards had violated the law on the right to vote, and said in the submission that the “new card of the Latino voters to choose their preferred candidates in existing Latino majority districts throughout the state” or completely eliminated.
The groups also argued in the submission that the fresh card “violates the 14th change in the US constitution because it deliberately discriminates against Latin American voters”.
A federal court has planned appointments The groups tried to temporarily block the congress cards for an interim hearing that listened to groups. The hearing is expected to begin on October 1st and run until October 10th, while legal disputes meander through the dishes about the merits of the card.
Louisiana
The Supreme Court made the unusual decision At the end of June to repeat a case via the Congress Card in Louisiana after the state included a second majority -black house district during the cycle in 2024.
According to the 2020 census, the state legislators drew a house map on which only a majority contained in the black house district, which asked the GOV at that time. John Bel Edwards (D) too (*5*)Veto the cardargued that it did not correspond to the standards for the law on the law on rights, since the black population of the state kept a third of the state, but was only represented in a house district.
Several groups complained about the congress lines after the GOP legislators Bel Edwards’ Veto had overridden, a case that finally wounded the way to the Supreme Court. While the house map was used during the cycle of 2022, the legislature was ultimately instructed to draw a card with a two majority black districts in front of the cycle of 2024 after the Supreme Court was separated via Alabama’s congress cards.
A group of non -black voters Through the fresh card in 2024There was a violation of the 14th and 15th amendments, “by deliberately discriminating against the voters and abbreviating their voices on the basis of racist classifications in Louisiana”, and “violation of racially racially gerryed districts”, which violate the 14th change.
It was expected Press the high court to oppose racial redistribution.
North Dakota
At the beginning of this month, several American people and voters are voters Asked the Supreme Court of the United States In order to rethink a judgment of the lower court, which was issued at the beginning of this year, which only determined the Ministry of Justice, section 2 of the voting law can enforce.
In Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act it says No vocal accounting, procedure or practice can be used, “in a way that leads to a rejection or expiry of the right of a citizen of the United States, to be right because of the breed or color.”
According to the census of 2020, the American indigenous people and voters sued over the state legislative cards of North Dakota in the northeast of North Dakota. In this area of ​​the state, three most educated American districts previously had.
The state originally had to create a fresh card, but a federal court of appeal later decided that private individuals cannot enforce section 2 of the voting rights law, and that they cannot be channeled by section 1983 by title 42, an anti -discriminatory section of the US code. The case could have an impact on leading to cases of section 2 of the law on voting rights in future redistribution of cases.
Mississippi
In a similar case that plays in North Dakota, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and other top officials of the state call on the Supreme Court of Court to determine whether section 2 of the law on voting rights is privately enforceable after the state was forced to re -draw its legal cards.
The case came from a lawsuit by the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP and other groups in 2022, in which the legislative maps in both chambers had violated Section 2 of the voting law law and were unconstitutional.
The courts decided last year that the groups “did not determine that the redistribution of cards for unconstitutional racist gerrymanders”, but was to be sued against Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Utah
This year the Democrats achieved a victory in the Beehive state when a state judge ordered the legislator to generate an independent redistribution commission for Utah’s congress lines in accordance with a ballot initiative, which was passed in 2018.
The GOP legislators had previously lifted the 2018 initiative adopted by the voters and issued their own commission, which was structured differently when creating their house map. However, the courts made it clear that the Republicans were wrong to lift an initiative approved by the voters with their own law.
The Republican legislators asked the Supreme Court of Utah to check the decision of the government judge in order to organize the GOP of throwing their house map by September 15 because the legislator was ordered to insert fresh cards during this month.
