Saturday, September 9, 2017

Federal Court Finds Texas Political Map Discriminated Against Minorities, Again

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/federal-court-finds-texas-political-map-discriminated-against-minorities-again/
"The state of Texas is on an impressive losing streak in court. On Thursday evening, a three-judge panel of a federal district court in San Antonio found that the state House district map purposefully undercut the voting power of African American and Latino voters—the ninth racial discrimination case the state has lost since 2011 and the fourth in just over a week."