Holtzman Vogel Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief in Support of State of Alabama; Argues Against Court-Mandated Racial Gerrymandering Under Voting Rights Act
On October 3, 2025, Holtzman Vogel filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of Washington State Senator Nikki Torres, Washington State Representative Alex Ybarra, and Jose Trevino in support of the State of Alabama. Alabama is asking the Court to reverse lower court decisions that held Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act required the state to racially divide the Gulf Coast region to place more voters from the Black Belt into a majority-minority district.
Amici are residents of, and public officials in, the Yakima region of the State of Washington. Amici experienced firsthand the absurdities that current Section 2 jurisprudence can create when a single federal judge in Washington, under the guise of Section 2, purported to cure race-based vote dilution by stereotyping all Hispanic voters as Democrats and purposefully diluting Hispanic citizen voting age population to achieve the court’s and the challengers’ preferred partisan outcome. The brief urges the Court to adopt reasonable limitations on current Section 2 jurisprudence to prevent Section 2 from further becoming a weapon for partisan litigants to achieve through the federal courts what they were unable to achieve through state redistricting processes.
Jason Torchinsky, Dallin Holt, and Daniel Bruce authored the brief.
