Texas Redistricting Back in Court

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This is from Michael Li of the Brennan Center https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/texas-redistricting-back-court

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Then, in the fall of 2014, a three-judge panel in San Antonio held trial on separate claims that the maps enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2011 failed to create sufficient additional new minority opportunities and otherwise violated the Voting Rights Act and/or Constitution. This trial resulted in a pair of 2-1 decisions in March and April of this year holding, among other things, that the 2011 plans:

were intentionally discriminatory,
unconstitutionally drew a number of congressional and state house districts predominantly on the basis of race (i.e., were racial gerrymanders),
failed to create a sufficient number of Latino congressional districts in South and West Texas as required by the Voting Rights Act, including a district that takes in the Latino population of Nueces County, and
diluted the vote of minority communities in the drawing of state house districts in Bell, Bexar, Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Nueces, and Tarrant counties, in the Rio Grande Valley, and in the state as a whole.

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1. Michael Li is live tweeting the trial

Michael Li is a Texas attorney who moved to New York a couple of years ago. Michael had a great blog on Texas election law and knows this case very very well.

Michael Li is live tweeting this trial

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