A coalition of Texas voters backed by the National Redistricting Foundation filed a sweeping federal challenge late Saturday to House Bill 4 , the mid-decade congressional map the Legislature approved just after midnight on August 23. The Second Supplemental Complaint, lodged before a three-judge panel, accuses state officials of intentionally dismantling performing majority-minority districts in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Central Texas, and South Texas, with the predictable effect, the plaintiffs say, of expanding Anglo control over Texas’s 38 US House seats.

The suit names Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson and Governor Greg Abbott and seeks to block the use of HB 4 in any future elections. It asks the court to declare the map unconstitutional and unlawful under Section 2 of the

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