Civil rights groups file lawsuit to halt new Texas map
Source: The Hill
08/26/25 6:00 PM ET
The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a new congressional map passed in Texas violates the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit alleges that Texas racially gerrymandered their map in such a way that it blocks Black voters from being able to elect their picks for office.
Texas Republicans passed a new congressional map in the state Legislature this month, which could potentially give their party five pickup opportunities in the House ahead of 2026. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has not signed the maps into law but is expected to do so soon.
Democrats have criticized Texas Republicans for making an already GOP-favored House map tilt further toward Republicans, arguing it breaks up communities of interest and that Republicans are bending a knee to President Trump and the White House over their push to do mid-decade redistricting. “The state of Texas is only 40 percent white, but white voters control over 73 percent of the state’s congressional seats,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
“It’s quite obvious that Texas’s effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year’s midterm elections, is racially motivated,” he added. “The state’s intent here is to reduce the members of Congress who represent Black communities, and that, in and of itself, is unconstitutional.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5471530-texas-congressional-map-lawsuit/
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#BREAKING: The NAACP is suing Texas over a new electoral map that strips Black voters of their political power.
Filed with @lawyerscomm, our lawsuit accuses Texas of racially motivated gerrymandering to silence Black communities ahead of next year's midterms.
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6:30 PM · Aug 26, 2025
Note the above!!!! All that huffing and puffing, so why is he waiting? Newsom blew past him and is only waiting for the special election approval to put their map in effect IF the TX map goes into effect. What might happen in that case if he sits on it, the couple lawsuits that have already been filed (including this one) would probably be tossed because "the map hasn't gone into effect yet".
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but what I meant was if the voters "approved", then the new CA map would go into effect but IIRC, ONLY if the TX map goes into effect! 
Texas was still working through their legislative process that is now done (where it was uncertain whether the TX House (D)s would stay away through the end of the calendar year, which they didn't).
What is missing now is Abbott's signature, and CA basically stole Abbott's blowhard thunder. TX also has a bit of a harder issue due to their map being done via racial gerrymandering, a violation of the VRA. Of course "Daddy" John Roberts could use that to torpedo what is left of the VRA. 
Meanwhile, early polling (although I hate polls because they have been awful the past decade) in CA has the voters generally approving as a majority -
(Berkeley Poll)
(Berkeley Poll)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-22/la-times-berkeley-poll-on-redistricting
