A federal court has denied a request by a group of Texas Democrats seeking to temporarily delay the state’s March 1 primary over what they claim are discriminatory redistricting maps. On Monday, a three-judge panel sided with the state, denying a motion to...
As expected, the Biden administration is challenging new district maps drawn earlier this year by the Texas Legislature, claiming they violate the Voting Rights Act. “The complaint filed today alleges that Texas has violated Section 2 [of the Voting Rights Act] by...
Democrats and their allies on the left are deploying an army of attorneys to fight against Texas Republicans’ newly enacted election integrity law, hoping courts will do what they couldn’t accomplish via the legislative process. It was a foregone conclusion that...
Texas and a coalition of states warned Congress this week they will “aggressively defend” against Democrat-priority legislation to impose federal control over states’ election processes. On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 22 other Republican attorneys...
McKinney City Councilmember La’Shadion Shemwell has refiled his voting rights lawsuit against the city’s special election to recall him from office, claiming the process is racially motivated. Shemwell, an outspoken Black Lives Matter activist, wants a federal court...
Texas can continue using winner-take-all to appoint presidential electors, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to opponents of the current Electoral College system. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas’ method of selecting...
Redistricting is still more than a year away, but Texas lawmakers have been touring the state for months, discussing the decennial map-drawing process and listening to residents’ concerns. Members of the Texas House Redistricting Committee began holding field hearings...
A North Texas city councilman facing recall has filed a voting rights lawsuit challenging the effort to remove him from office. On Tuesday night, McKinney City Council ordered a recall election for District 1 Council Member La’Shadion Shemwell. Hours earlier,...
In a calculated bid to put Texas elections under federal control, congressional Democrats traveled to Brownsville Monday looking to create a case that the state is so riddled with racial discrimination it can’t be trusted to enact voting laws without approval from...
Texas voter ID proponents are confident the common-sense voting requirement will stand, following a strong defense in federal appeals court Tuesday against the election integrity law’s challengers. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he’s hopeful the U.S. 5th...
A federal court ruled Friday in Texas’ six-year-long redistricting battle that the state’s congressional maps must be redrawn because some of the districts are illegal – even though the districts, drawn in 2011, were never used and were repealed and replaced in 2013....
Texas and other sections of the country subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act scored a big victory today. The Supreme Court struck down the formula for determining “pre-clearance,” effectively clearing the way for Texas to implement Voter ID and any future...
Good news hit the wires this afternoon – Attorney General Greg Abbott has fired a shot at the Voting Rights Act, directly challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 in his latest complaint, calling it an infringement on Article IV of the US Constitution and...
