The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Texas over the state’s redrawn congressional and state legislative districts, saying the new plan violates United States voting laws by discriminating against minority voters.The complaint, filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Monday, argues that the Texas maps of congressional and state legislative districts violate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.The lawsuit notes that the vast majority of Texas’ population growth over the past decade came from Black, Latino and Asian residents, but the new maps that state Republicans drew do not give any of these communities new opportunities to choose their own representatives.
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