No. 25-918October Term 2025Petition Pending
Jose A. Trevino, et al., Petitioners v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.
This pending case challenges a court-ordered replacement for Washington’s Legislative District 15 map after the original district was found to dilute Hispanic voters’ voting strength under the Voting Rights Act.
Case status
- Current stage
- Petition Pending
- Latest event
- Petition pending
- Decision timing
- No decision timeline until the Court agrees to hear the case.
- What it's about
This pending case challenges a court-ordered replacement for Washington’s Legislative District 15 map after the original district was found to dilute Hispanic voters’ voting strength under the Voting Rights Act. The petitioners argue that the Ninth Circuit wrongly rejected their standing to challenge the Voting Rights Act ruling and the remedial map, and wrongly held that the remedial map was not predominantly based on race.
Question presented
1. Whether an individual voter who was granted only permissive intervention below, has no role in implementing state elections, and has not established harm, traceability, or redressability to the lower court’s liability decision or remedial decision on the basis of vote dilution, lacks standing to appeal. 2. Whether a candidate who does not reside in or represent the district at issue, was granted only permissive intervention below, has no role in implementing state elections and does not challenge the counting of votes in his election, who was only helped and not harmed in any way by his new district, and who cannot establish traceability or redressability to the lower court’s liability or remedial decisions, has standing to appeal. 3. Where Intervenors forfeited their racial gerrymandering claim against the remedial map below, race was not considered at all in the drawing of the map, and the district court’s selection of the map was not driven by race such that race could not predominate, does the map trigger strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Petition pending
- Area
Elections, Civil Rights
Briefing
What it's about
This pending case concerns a court-ordered replacement map for Washington’s Legislative District 15 after the original map was found to dilute Hispanic voters’ strength under the Voting Rights Act. The petitioners challenge whether they may appeal that decision and whether the replacement map should face the Constitution’s toughest review for racial gerrymandering.
Argument
The case has not been scheduled for oral argument. The petitioners argue they have standing to challenge the Voting Rights Act decision and replacement map, and that the map should receive strict constitutional review.
Impact
The case could affect Hispanic voters in Legislative District 15 and the boundaries used to elect their state legislators. It could also clarify when voters or candidates may appeal election-map decisions even if they do not administer elections.
What is at stake in Trevino v. Hobbs?
The case concerns a replacement Washington legislative map and whether petitioners may challenge the original vote-dilution decision and the new district’s design.
Who could be affected by the Legislative District 15 map fight?
Hispanic voters in Legislative District 15 could be affected because the dispute concerns their voting strength in elections for Washington state legislators.
What happens next in Trevino v. Hobbs?
The Court may schedule oral argument or take another scheduling action. No timetable for a decision has been set.
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Grounding
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- Note
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- Checked
- Sep 4, 2026
- Method
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