DOJ sues Texas over redistricting, saying the new maps discriminate

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This marks the third time the Biden Justice Department has sued the state, and the second time it has sued over an election-related matter.

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Podcast producer, Galen Druke, walks us through the basics of gerrymandering.The Justice Department is suing the state of Texas over its newly redistricted congressional and state legislature maps, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday.Garland said Texas violated the Voting Rights Act by drawing redistricting maps that disenfranchise African American and Latino voters.

Vanita Gupta, the associate attorney general, said growth in the state's minority populations was not represented in the redistricting maps and that several districts"were drawn with discriminatory intent.

According to Census data included in the lawsuit, Texas' Latino population grew by almost 50%, and the African American population grew to 16% between 2010 and 2020. Texas's"plans will diminish the opportunities for Latino and black voters in Texas to elect their preferred representatives," Gupta said.

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