NAACP sues Texas over new maps, calling them racially gerrymandered
27 August (UPI) – NaACP suits Texas on the new congress maps and calls them racially Gerrymermer, violating the Voting Rights Law.
The country’s largest civil rights organization movement On Tuesday, in the 2021 case, taking preliminary measures against new maps in the case of 2021, opened against Texas over the previously drawn maps and “Black Texas and other Texas people deliberately diluted.” He said.
“The state of Texas only controls 73% of the state congress seats,” NaACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said. He said. A statement.
“It is clear that Texas’s effort to rearrange in the middle of the decade before the interim elections next year is racial. It is to reduce the members of the congress representing the black communities of the state here and it is against the constitution on its own and on its own.”
NaACP, together with the civil rights groups and the Ministry of Justice, filed a lawsuit against Texas in December 2021 in accordance with the previous Biden administration, and claimed that the newly withdrawn congress maps violated the voting rights law and 14th change.
Based on the new census data, 95% of Texas won 4 million people, who were colorful people and won two new congress houses for the state. NaACP argues that new maps based on new information are withdrawn for supporting Anglo-Majority regions despite demographic change.
In March-In terms of Dava and President Donald Trump won the election again and returned to the White House-Ministry of Justice rejected his claims In the case, the trial ended on June 11th.
Less than a month, the Ministry of Justice argued that the four congresses held democratic to Texas were racially Gerrymander, and instructed Republican Greg Abbott to redraw them.
These redefined maps are expected to give Republicans five more seats in the US House of Representatives in the near future, both accepted by both the Texas State House and the Senate.
The Democrats accused the Trump administration of the attempt to grab a power to increase the possibility of the Republicans’ control of the Congress Branch after the midterm elections next year.
NaACP, which was represented by the Civil Rights Committee of Lawyers, claimed that Texas’ more than one minority group together for the majority of voters, which clearly targets the regions in which the majority of voters together.
“The dismissal of the congress regions due to racial compositions of the congress regions is deliberate discrimination.” He said.
The Group of Civil Rights requires a permanent precautionary measures to apply the Maps of Gerrymand against the state.
“Now we see how long the pro -extreme leaders are willing to go back to a time when full personality and equal rights are rejected,” NaACP Texas President Gary Bledsoe said. He said.
He continued: “We call on the dangers of this moment. Our democracy depends on the fact that every human being is counted, equal value, and to be represented in a fair way.”
