The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Galveston County to use a redrawn districting map that a federal judge said denies Blacks and Latinos equal voting rights.

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 ...

Galveston County is moving forward with its 2024 election using district maps that multiple courts have ruled violate the Voting Rights Act by denying Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity ...

The court issued a 6-3 ruling on Tuesday to grant the county’s request to keep the maps in place ahead of the election, handing a victory to Galveston County officials.

Galveston went from having one majority-minority district to having none after commissioners redrew the maps and violated Black and Latino voters’ rights, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Voting Federal appeals court blocks new Galveston County political map, while plaintiffs seek Supreme Court intervention The U.S. 5th Circuit has stayed a district court’s order that the county ...

The U.S. Supreme Court approved the use of voting maps in Galveston County for the upcoming 2024 election despite other courts deeming it a violation.

Whether flat ground or steep hills, tragedy is tragedy, and many in the county could empathize with the victims of historic ...

A federal appeals court said Galveston County must redraw its political map to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The move comes just two days after the court set a May date to hear the county's ...

Newly drawn county election districts in Galveston illegally weaken the voting power of Black and Latino residents and must be redone, a federal judge ordered.

This decision means that Galveston County elections will be using a map that a lower court judge said violated the Voting Rights Act.

A judge ruled on Friday that Galveston County must redraw its 2021 redistricting map because it violates the Voting Rights Act and United States Constitution, according to a news release from the ...