Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and their partners are calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to bring relief to Galveston County voters still living under a racially gerrymandered map.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted an en banc review of the Black-Latino coalition claims in the redistricting case Petteway v. Galveston County.
Despite the plaintiffs having won in the trial court on Oct. 13 and in the initial hearing on appeal on Nov. 10, the 5th Circuit had issued an administrative stay order preventing the trial court from holding remedial proceedings to put a new, legally compliant map in place.
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