At-large system for Texan judicial voting could be replaced with one that elects judges by single-member geographic districts

From the Brennan Center:

A group of Latino voters has filed a lawsuit alleging that the current election system for Texas’ highest courts violates the Voting Rights Act, writes Andrew Schneider for Houston Public Media. Currently, judges on the nine-member Court of Criminal Appeals and the Supreme Court of Texas, which are the two highest courts in the state, are “chosen in at-large, partisan elections. “ According to Schneider, “there are only two Hispanic judges on those top two courts, one on each, even though Latino citizens make up more than a quarter of Texas’ voting age population.” Jose Garza, who filed the suit, explained that “the state’s current method of electing judges violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting Latinos’ voting power,” highlighting that “in the last couple of decades, every candidate that has been the choice of Latino voters has lost.” Schneider writes that “[t]he suit aims to replace the at-large system with one that elects judges by single-member geographic districts.”