The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today (November 8, 2011) has denied the State's motion for summary judgment regarding pre-clearance for Texas' maps for the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas State Senate, and Texas House.
The Court found that "the State of Texas used an improper standard or methodology to determine which districts afford minority voters the ability to elect their preferred candidates of choice and that ther are material issues of fact in dispute that prevent this Court from entering declaratory judgment that the three redistricting plans meet the requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act."
The maps presented by the state would have damaged latino growth gains. Here in the City of Socorro, with a population approximately 97% hispanic, 95th largest city in Texas) would have put us in a district also representing the City of San Antonio, more than 500 miles away!
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