GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas – The United States Supreme Court decided that they will not block a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals that leaves in place a new map for Galveston County.
According to a news release, a federal district judge ruled in 2022 that the new map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits election practices that result in a denial or abridgment of the right to vote based on race.
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On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled that the unsigned order would mean that Galveston County can use a new map in the 2024 elections.
"Galveston County officials adopted the map at the center of the dispute for the county’s commissioners in Nov. 2021. Under the map, the county’s lone majority-minority district became the district with the lowest percentage of Black and Latino residents.
Both the Biden administration and two groups of local civil rights leaders and civil rights groups went to federal court to challenge the map,” the news release read.
For more on this order, visit SCOTUSBLOG.com.