Texas Lawmakers Didn’t Target Minority Voters, Court Told
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– Texas lawmakers didn’t discriminate against blacks and Latinos by drawing election maps that critics claim make it harder for minorities to elect their candidates, a lawyer for the state said at a trial that’s become a Justice Department test case for revitalizing the Voting Rights Act.
Texas and voting-rights activists supported by the U.S. government are back in federal court in San Antonio, resuming a three-year battle over claims that Republican lawmakers intentionally drew Congressional districts to curb the political power of the state’s rapidly growing Latino population.