A trio of lawsuits, consolidated as Petteway versus Galveston County, will be the first significant voting rights trial since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban on racial discrimination in redistricting in June.
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hispanic voters and particularly because it dilutes their voting power. for instance, one of the statistics that the justice department says in this new lawsuit that was filed today, they say that about 4 million people were added to the texas population between 2010 and 2020. 95% of that growth was from latinos. texas added two congressional seats from that redistricting process, and of those two seats, both of them were drawn with a majority white voting population. so this was shown to the justice department says this shows this is a violation of section two of the voting rights act. and that s the reason why this lawsuit was filed. this is the second voting rights lawsuit that has been filed against texas in the last couple of months. and we can expect, wolf, that the you ll see more of these types of lawsuits. there are a number of states,
districts that were getting more competitive in favor of democrats all out in the suburbs. instead what this new map does is packs every democratic voter in the travis county area into one new congressional district. and it shores up republicans in the surrounding districts. jane, greg abbott will probably like this issue for his own political reasons, right? the republican governor of texas has made it his business to get into lawsuits with this administration. how do you see this playing out in texas and in the big election that s already going on down there right now where we re likely to see an abbott/beto o rourke showdown next fall? voting rights has been a sort of constant issue in this race before this race was even declared, with beto o rourke being a huge voting rights advocate. this is the second in under a month voting rights lawsuit from doj to texas. they re going to be love this, shoring up their vote and making sure their base feels confident in the election, even tho
dividing the university of florida campus. on one side are university professors who say historically they have been permitted to offer their paid expert opinion outside of the classroom. on the other side university administrators who recently sought to prevent three political science professors from testifying in a voting rights lawsuit against the administration of governor ron desantis. the university had said the professors couldn t testify because it might create a conflict of interest between the state run university and the executive branch of the state of florida. after much criticism on friday, the university announced it would reverse its decision and will now allow those faculty members to testify. but despite the reversal, three faculty members are suing the president provost, and board of trustees over the under lying issue. their case had followed others in which the university reportedly denied other professor requests to provide expert testimony. here s how the miami h