A three-Judge Federal Court in El Paso, Texas has ordered Texas Governor Greg Abbott to immediately respond to a motion filed by Plaintiffs yesterday asking the Court to reopen the record in the current redistricting case to take additional testimony. At issue are the inconsistencies between the sworn testimony of State witnesses and the Trump Department of Justice letter Abbott released to justify redrawing Texas congressional districts. The order signed by presiding Federal Judge David C. Guarderrama reads:
“Defendants SHALL RESPOND to “Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion to Reopen Record and Take Additional Testimony” (ECF No. 1114) by 5:00 P.M. Mountain Time on Saturday, July 12, 2025.”
The quick response from the Court and its demand for an immediate response from Abbott’s attorneys signals clear interest and likely serious concerns that either state witnesses lied under oath or the Trump Department of Justice has falsely identified key Texas congressional districts as illegally racially gerrymandered.
Attorneys representing the Brooks Plaintiffs were joined by other plaintiff groups in filing their motion yesterday. That motion reads in part:
“New evidence reveals that witnesses, including Senator Huffman, Chris Gober, and Adam Kincaid, potentially falsely testified that Texas’s congressional map was drawn without consideration of race. Specifically, the Governor has called a special session of the Legislature to take up redistricting of the congressional map, approvingly citing a letter from the United States Department of Justice asserting that evidence exists to prove that the current congressional map was drawn with race as a predominant consideration. The deposition and trial testimony of the relevant witnesses and this new evidence are flatly contradictory. One or the other is false, and Plaintiffs and the Court are entitled to probe whether key witnesses truthfully testified at deposition and at trial—on the central question in this case—given this new evidence.”
In his eagerness to do Trump’s bidding and further undermine the will of Texas voters, Greg Abbott may have exposed dishonesty and overt discrimination by Republicans in both Washington and Texas.
