Census: 51 of nation’s 82 Latino-majority counties are in Texas
Fifty-one of the nation's 82 Latino-majority counties are in Texas, a recently released U.S. Census Bureau report shows. From 2000 to 2010, Latinos were responsible for more than half of the national...
View ArticleDemocrats cry foul over Texas Senate GOP’s congressional redistricting plan
Voting along party lines, the Senate has adopted a new map to accommodate Texas' four new congressional districts, disregarding heated objections that the plan fails to reflect the reason the state was...
View ArticleAnalysis: Texas congressional redistricting case to test Voting Rights Act’s...
A congressional redistricting plan speeding its way through the Texas Legislature this week almost certainly will provoke a major test of the federal 1965 Voting Rights Act. Texas Democrats and civil...
View ArticleTexas redistricting trial opens with Latino groups saying Republicans “sliced...
Attorney Gerry Hebert, who represents a group of plaintiffs from Fort Worth and Houston, said the dilution of the Hispanic vote in two South Texas congressional districts made sense from a political...
View ArticleLawyers for Texas insist state didn’t discriminate against minorities in...
Lawyers for the state of Texas told a judicial panel Wednesday that the Republican-controlled Legislature did not intend to discriminate against minorities when it redrew lines to favor GOP candidates....
View ArticleHispanic groups say Republicans diluted Latino voting strength in redistricting
David Saucedo, the Maverick County judge in Eagle Pass, said splitting the 95 percent Hispanic and heavily Democratic city and county would lessen their impact in the 23rd Congressional District,...
View ArticleMALDEF cuts redistricting deal with Greg Abbott; NAACP, Latino lawmakers cry...
The deal would force Austin Democrat Lloyd Doggett to run in a heavily Latino, San Antonio-based district and would deny African Americans in Fort Worth a golden opportunity to win a new D-FW House...
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