Governor Greg Abbott has filed a legal petition to have the seats of Texas Democrats declared vacant after they left the state to deny the Legislature a quorum, in an effort to pass a new congressional map that adds additional GOP seats.
Tag: Redistricting
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Texas Redistricting: What They Really Want to Do
President Trump has called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to call for redistricting of the state, in order to maintain the GOP’s majority in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government, despite the fact that it is unconstitutional racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act.
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We Carry on: Black Family Reunions in a Time of Erasure
They try to erase us. Again. Erase the stories, the elders, the recipes handed down on index cards stained with soul. Erase the baby with thick curls chasing cousins through […]
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COMMENTARY: Redistricting is Voter Suppression Too
By Ben Jealous When Charles Diggs, Jr. won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at […]