DOJ Files Suit Challenging Texas’ Redistricting Plans Citing Violations Of The Voting Rights Act

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DOJ Files Suit Challenging Texas’ Redistricting Plans Citing Violations Of The Voting Rights Act

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the Department of Justice filed suit challenging Texas redistricting maps, citing a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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Bayard Rustin, a co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 had become by the 1960s an experienced civil rights and peace activist. During much of that decade he was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King. In this address originally printed in Commentary, Rustin argues that the

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June 25 marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and upended decades of progress. Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of

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