The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Texas on Dec. 6, alleging that its redistricting map violates the Voting Rights Act.
Texas officials drew the map in a way that violates Section 2 of the act, which prohibits redistricting in a way that denies or abridges the rights of minorities on account of their race, according to a complaint filed in federal court in El Paso. The legislature “surgically excised” minority neighborhoods from the Dallas–Fort Worth core and attached them to “heavily Anglo rural counties,” giving the minorities a lack of equal “electoral opportunity,” the complaint states.
