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Texas Bills / Amendments Caption Clips
89th 2nd Called Session
HB 4 Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas. 127
Federal and State Bills
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A.B. 604, 2025-2026 R.S., Election Rigging Response Act. (Other State Bill)
See: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB604
By California State Legislature
Publication Date: August 18, 2025
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Legal Documents
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Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission; Opinion (No. 08-205, political action committees/super PACs, corporate political spending, campaign finance). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2008/2008_08_205
In 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
By U.S. Supreme Court
Publication Date: January 21, 2010
  134
David Tangipa, et al., and United States of America, v. Gavin Newsom and Shirley Weber; United States' complaint in intervention (No. 2:25-cv-10616, Trump administration joining lawsuit challenging California’s new congressional map after passage of Proposition 50; California AB 604, 2025 redistricting). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285.28.2_5.pdf
By U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Publication Date: November 13, 2025
  2
Greg Abbott, et al., v. League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), et al.; Opinion and dissenting opinion (No. 25A608, restoring the congressional map created by HB 4, 89-2, redistricting). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a608_7khn.pdf
By U.S. Supreme Court
Publication Date: December 4, 2025
  11
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), et al., v. Greg Abbott, et al.; Dissent from the memorandum opinion and order granting preliminary injunction (No. 3:21-cv-00259, mid-decade congressional redistricting map, HB 4, 89th 2nd C.S.). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387.1439.0_1...
By U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division
Publication Date: November 19, 2025
  17
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), et al., v. Greg Abbott, et al.; Memorandum opinion and order granting preliminary injunction (No. 3:21-cv-00259, preliminarily enjoining Texas from using the mid-decade congressional redistricting map, HB 4, 89th 2nd C.S.). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387/gov.uscourts.txwd.1150387.1437.0_1...
By U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division
Publication Date: November 18, 2025
  34
Robert A. Rucho, et al. v. Common Cause, et al.; Opinion and dissenting opinion (No. 18-422, federal courts can't prevent state legislators from redistricting in ways that benefit them; North Carolina partisan gerrymandering). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://casetext.com/case/rucho-v-common-cause-2
By U.S. Supreme Court
Publication Date: June 27, 2019
  60
Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric H. Holder, Jr. et al.; Opinion (No. 12-96, striking down Voting Rights Act of 1965, sec. 5; allowing states to enforce voter identification laws). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf
By U.S. Supreme Court
Publication Date: June 25, 2013
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Terry Petteway, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al.; En banc opinion (No. 23-40582, separate minority groups cannot “aggregate their populations” when challenging potentially discriminatory congressional maps, and each group's case must be analyzed separately; redistricting, overruling Campos v. City of Baytown, 840 F.2d 1240, 1244 (5th Circ. 1988); coalition districts). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176.347.1.pdf
By U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Publication Date: August 1, 2024
  15
Vieth v. Jubelirer, President of the Pennsylvania Senate; Opinion (No. 02-1580; political gerrymandering). (Link Type: Federal Court Case)
See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-1580.ZS.html
By U.S. Supreme Court
Publication Date: April 28, 2004
  8
Articles / Press Releases
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Has the Supreme Court become just another political branch? Public perceptions of court approval and legitimacy in a post-Dobbs world. (Link Type: Article)
See: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk9590
By Matthew Levendusky, et al. / Science Advances
Publication Date: March 8, 2024
   
Other
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Letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, RE: Disagreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice's assessment which claims four Democratic congressional districts in Texas are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders (redistricting, SB 6, 87th 3rd C.S., PLAN C2193). (Link Type: Letter)
See: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26032673/response-to-doj-redistricting-letter.pdf
By Attorney General Ken Paxton
Publication Date: July 11, 2025
  22
Letter to Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, RE: Unconstitutional race-based congressional districts (flagging four left-leaning Texas congressional seats and raising concerns over the legality of their racial makeup; redistricting, SB 6, 87th 3rd C.S., PLAN C2193). (Link Type: Letter)
See: https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/archive/2025/57372.pdf
By Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon and Deputy U.S. Assistant Attorney General Michael E. Gates / U.S. Department of Justice
Publication Date: July 7, 2025
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