The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Aug. 26 filed a motion seeking to block Texas’s newly enacted congressional map, arguing it “intentionally discriminates based on race.”
The NAACP filed the motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in El Paso, as part of a lawsuit that names the Texas governor and the Texas secretary of state as defendants.
The motion is an amendment to a lawsuit against Texas that the NAACP filed in 2021 to challenge congressional maps drawn after the 2020 census. The original complaint had said that redistricting plans were drawn by legislators and adopted “for the express purpose of permissibly discriminating against voters of color” in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act….