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A mutual aid and civil rights organization of the United States formed in 1929, serving all Hispanic nationality groups
Donald Trump has repeatedly used the phrase "These aren't people; these are animals" in public remarks about migrants and criminals, and multiple reputable outlets reported him saying immigrants were ...
The factual record for the shows isolated, documented instances of — local arrests, state investigations and a handful of legal challenges — but no vetted evidence that widespread fraud altered the na...
The Texas Legislature’s 2025 congressional maps drew at least nine separate lawsuits alleging , and those challenges produced a complex, shifting litigation posture through 2025 and into 2026 with no ...
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 constrains Texas redistricting by prohibiting maps that deny or abridge voting power on the basis of race and by enabling Section 2 lawsuits alleging vote dilution;...
Federal courts in 2022 and 2024 did not impose sweeping remedial redrawings of Texas maps; instead judges limited relief by denying or dismissing certain preliminary injunctions and claims, resolving ...
The record shows multiple, overlapping lawsuits challenging Texas’s post‑2020 redistricting that produced mixed results through 2022–2024: several consolidated federal suits alleged Section 2 and cons...
The key judicial battles shaping gerrymandering in Texas are a mix of long-running federal challenges to state maps, Supreme Court rulings that set legal standards on race and partisanship, and ongoin...
The 2025 Texas congressional redistricting overhaul is widely described as a concerted Republican effort to shift up to five House seats from Democratic to Republican control, with in urban areas like...
Donald Trump has not issued a routine, contrite apology for past incendiary statements about Hispanics; instead he has repeatedly defended, denied, or reframed those remarks from 2015 through at least...
Major civil-rights and immigrant-advocacy groups publicly supported the Democratic “Born in the USA/Born in the USA Act” version that blocks President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 because it preserve...
A federal judge has permanently barred the part of President Trump’s 2025 elections executive order that would force people to produce passports or similar documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when u...
Federal and civil-rights litigation that began after Texas’ 2021 redistricting produced two concrete outcomes reported in current sources: the 2021 maps were used in the 2022 elections (the Legislatur...
Federal judges in El Paso blocked Texas’s 2025 congressional map from being used in the 2026 midterms, finding “substantial evidence” the map was a racial gerrymander; the ruling enjoined the 2025 map...
Mid‑decade redistricting—rare until 2025—has been used explicitly for partisan advantage in a handful of modern cases: Texas (2003 and 2025), Georgia and more recently actions or proposals in states i...
Federal and private lawsuits filed after Texas’ 2021 redistricting alleged the congressional and state-house plans unlawfully diluted Black and Latino voting power under Section 2 of the Voting Rights...
A limited set of Texas districts were redrawn by court order in 2022 as a result of litigation consolidated under United States v. State of Texas / LULAC v. Abbott, and at least one local remap — Galv...
Federal courts are actively litigating multiple Voting Rights Act challenges to Texas’s mid-decade 2025 congressional maps, with plaintiffs alleging intentional racial gerrymandering and Section 2 vot...
Federal and state litigation following the 2020 Census alleges that multiple Texas congressional and legislative districts , but courts have reached different procedural and substantive findings at di...
Federal courts produced mixed outcomes in 2025–2026 litigation over Texas’s mid‑decade redistricting: a three‑judge federal trial docket in El Paso conducted extensive hearings on the statewide congre...
Between 2022 and 2024 the Supreme Court did not issue a broad, definitive vacatur or nationwide affirmation specifically disposing of Texas’s 2021 congressional and state legislative maps; the litigat...