Does Dallas County discriminate against white voters? Trial on voting rights lawsuit to begin

[Gothmog]

This will be fun to watch https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-county/2018/04/06/dallas-county-discriminate-white-voters-trial-voting-rights-lawsuit-begin

Are white voters in Dallas County being discriminated against?

That question, which might cause some to chuckle, will be answered after a trial starting April 16 that could change the face of the voting rights struggle in America.

Four white residents are suing Dallas County, claiming that the current boundaries of county commissioner districts violate their voting rights. The case is believed to be one of the first in the nation where a group of whites is seeking protection under the Voting Rights Act.

The lawsuit foreshadows a potential turnabout in Texas' and the nation's racial politics. As Hispanics, blacks and other minorities close in on making America a country where minorities make up the majority, some whites are attempting to use civil rights laws to protect themselves from what they see as discrimination.

Dallas has been blue since 2006. This case will be fun to watch Michael Li used to be a patent attorney in Dallas and is now at the Brennan Center. He will be following this case

Redistricting experts say the plaintiffs will have a hard time prevailing over the county. The Voting Rights Act, in part, protects victims of historical and systemic discrimination. White voters don't fall in that class. A challenge to the maps on grounds that the white residents' constitutional rights were violated has already faded.

"That's a pretty high hurdle to overcome," said Michael Li, an election law expert and senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program at New York University. "There hasn't been a history of discrimination against white voters in Dallas County."

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. LOL

[Gothmog]

2. From Michael Li-Blessed their hearts

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