Abbott v. Perez
Texas
Abbott v. Perez (closed)
The NRF helped support one of the plaintiff groups that challenged Texas’ congressional map in Abbott v. Perez, a case ultimately consolidated to also include challenges to Texas’s state legislative district maps. The NRF-supported plaintiffs achieved a favorable decision from the district court panel, which found that the state’s redrawing of its congressional map in 2011 and 2013 violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and was intentionally discriminatory. The Supreme Court reversed this decision, however, in part due to the district court’s own involvement in the map-drawing process in 2012.