Thread: Lulac Files suit Against Texas

June 10, 2011

Contact: Luis Roberto Vera, Jr.
National General Counsel
(210) 225-3300



LULAC Files Redistricting Suit Against Texas
Legal Team has Been Preparing for Redistricting Process Since Last Year

San Antonio, TX –The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest and largest Latino membership organization in the United States, filed suit today against the State of Texas challenging the manner in which redistricting for the United States House of Representatives, the State House of Representatives and the Texas State Board of Education have been drawn or will be drawn.

LULAC attorneys including Luis Vera, Jose Garza, Rolando Rios & George Korbell have been working since last November on the redistricting process in Texas. Once the 2010 Census figures for Texas were made public, George Korbell drew redistricting maps that were used by Texas LULAC leaders in their testimony before the state legislature. These maps made clear that the four new congressional districts that Texas gained as a result of its fast growing Hispanic population, could be drawn in a manner that would create four new Latino performing districts.

“For 82 years, LULAC has worked to defend the voting rights of Latinos in the state of Texas and throughout the nation,â€

I thought it was the Texas legislature that was tasked with the responsibility of this. As a resident of Texas I do not ever remember voting for LULAC to do this.

LULAC cannot re-district nor can they be involved in the re-districting process as a SPECIAL INTEREST ORGANIZATION -