Taxpayers' Political Action Committee v. City of Houston

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is a mandamus case brought under Article 1735a, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stat. The *148petitioners seek to compel the city council of the city of Houston to submit to the voters of the city an amendment to the city charter. The mandamus will be denied.

The amendment proposed by petition and several others were ordered to be submitted to the electorate by an ordinance adopted by the city council on July 11, 1979. On July 18, 1979, the United States Attorney General, acting on a submission of the city under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. §…