Latino groups sue over Texas redistricting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: NBC News

Several Latino people and groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging redistricting maps drawn by the Texas Legislature, saying they dilute the voting rights of Latinos.

The lawsuit was filed Monday afternoon as the Texas Legislature was nearing completion of U.S. House maps that shore up Republicans and do not add additional Latino majority districts, even though Latinos account for more than half of the state’s growth.

The congressional maps still were in negotiations Monday as the Texas House and Senate ironed out differences.

The Voting Rights Act protects minority voters' right to choose who represents them, whether or not that is a person of color.



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[LeftInTX]

1. LULAC did not submit any redistricting plans to the legislature this session.

I wish they would have, they had plenty of opportunities.

The legislature of course would have ingored the LULAC maps, but....at least LULACS maps would have been out in the public and can be shown as evidence in court that they did try to petition the legislature.

I spent 8 hours in a House hearing last week. No one from the LULAC showed up...Maybe they were at the senate hearing two weeks earlier.....I was very disappointed..Very few Latinos showed up. It was mostly white people, Asians and Blacks...Only three or four latinos versus like 40 of each other group. I testified on behalf of the Latino community, but my scope was very narrow because I only represented myself and my district and I only discussed one district and in particular one part of the district.