Texas Keeps Failing to Convince Federal Courts Its Voting Laws Aren't Racist
This time, judges found the statehouse maps to be intentional racial gerrymanders.
In March, a panel of federal judges ruled that Texas’s current congressional district maps had been intentionally drawn to “pack” and “dilute” minority votes in three districts in a way that constituted not only partisan advantage—which is legal—but racial discrimination. Earlier this month, a federal district court found that the Texas law requiring strict voter ID not only had racially disparate effects, but that “a discriminatory purpose was at least one of the substantial or motivating factors” in its creation.
Thursday, another three-judge federal panel completed the trifecta, issuing a
