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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas, claiming that the congressional map was drawn to deny an equal opportunity to Black and Latino voters.
Attorney General Garland spoke at the Department of Justice in Washington. Andrew Harnik- Pool/
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Section Two of the Voting Rights Act requires voters to have an equal opportunity to participate in the electoral process and pick representatives of their choosing, and the DOJ claims that Texas' new map of congressional districts violates this requirement.
The map was drawn to diminish the political power of voters of color in Texas, according to the DOJ.
The Texas Tribune reported that the new map eliminates the state's only existing majority Black district and drops the number of majority Latino districts.
Texas gained two congressional seats as a result of the 2020 Census, making it the only state to add more than one seat in the process due to massive population growth.
The Texas attorney general's office called the DOJ complaint an "absurd lawsuit against our state" and said it was the Biden Administration's latest ploy to control Texas voters.
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Garland said that voters should choose their representatives.
The Republican-controlled legislature in Texas changed the political leaning of most of the state's congressional districts by eliminating competitive districts entirely. The number of districts that voted for Donald Trump went up from 13 to 23 while the number of districts that voted for Joe Biden went down from 9 to 12. The number of competitive districts fell from 14 to three.
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