¶1Chad Wilson Dunn, Esq. (argued), Brazil & Dunn, Houston, TX, Neil G. Baron, Dickinson, TX, Erin Helene Flynn, Esq. (argued), Diana Katherine Flynn, Robert Acheson Koch, Christine Anne Monta, U.S. Department of Justice, Joshua James Bone, J. Gerald Hebert, Esq., Anna Marks Baldwin, Washington, DC, Armand G. Derfner, Esq., Derfner & Altman, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, John Albert Smith, III, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Corpus Christi, TX, Vishal Agraharkar, Jennifer Clark, NYU School of Law, New York, NY, Robert Wayne Doggett, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Incorporated, Austin, TX, Jose Garza, San Antonio, TX, Marinda Van Dalen, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Incorporated, Brownsville, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
¶2Sherrilyn Ann Ifill, Leah Camille Aden, Esq., Natasha M. Korgaonkar, Esq., Janai S. Nelson, Esq., Deuel Ross, Christina A. Swams, Ryan Paul Haygood, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Kelly Patrick Dunbar, Sonya Ludmilla Lebsack, WilmerHale, Ezra D. Rosenberg, Esq., Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, *959Rolando Leo Rios, I, Esq., Law Office of Rolando L. Rios, San Antonio, TX, Amy Lynne Rudd, Senior Litigating Attorney, Lindsey Beth Cohan, Dechert, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Intervenor Plaintiffs-Ap-pellees.
¶3Scott A. Keller, Solicitor (argued), J. Campbell Barker, Matthew Hamilton Frederick, Deputy Solicitor Generals, Office of the Solicitor General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.
¶4Lawrence John Joseph, Daniel B. Kohr-man, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC, Martin Jonathan Siegel, Law Office of Martin J. Siegel. P.C., Rebecca L. Robertson, American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Houston, TX, Dale Edwin Ho, Director, Sean Young, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae.
¶5Before STEWART, Chief Judge, JOLLY, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DENNIS, CLEMENT, PRADO, OWEN, ELROD, SOUTHWICK, HAYNES, GRAVES, HIGGINSON and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
¶7A member of the court having requested a poll on the petition for rehearing en banc, and a majority of the circuit judges in regular active service and not disqualified having voted in favor,
¶8IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.