DOJ Drops Texas Racist Gerrymandering Lawsuit

The Texas Tribune reports:

The U.S. Justice Department withdrew from a lawsuit alleging that Texas’ legislative and congressional district maps drawn after the 2020 U.S. census discriminated against Latino and Black voters by denying them an equal opportunity to participate in the electoral process.

The department made the decision last week, according to court filings. It’s the latest in a series of moves by the Justice Department under President Donald Trump to retreat from voting rights cases initiated by the Biden administration.

In January, the department withdrew from a voting rights case it had brought last year against Virginia over the removal of names from voter rolls, and last month it withdrew a request to participate in a redistricting case in Louisiana.

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The Justice Department dropped its lawsuit claiming that Texas’ congressional and legislative maps violate the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/1lujWewqjZ

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