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[gry60]

Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator says in sworn court statement

A three-judge federal panel is hearing arguments in a lawsuit claiming that Texas Republicans violated the Voting Rights Act when they redrew state Senate District 10 in Tarrant County to lessen Black and Hispanic voting power.

www.texastribune.org

EL PASO — In a sworn declaration submitted as part of an ongoing federal court challenge, a senior Republican state senator with redistricting experience said he believes his party violated federal voting laws when it drew new boundaries for state Senate District 10 in the Fort Worth area.

“Having participated in the 2011 and 2013 Senate Select Redistricting Committee proceedings, and having read the prior federal court decision regarding SD10, it was obvious to me that the renewed effort to dismantle SD 10 violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution,” state Sen. Kel Seliger said in a declaration signed in November.

The statement from the Amarillo Republican emerged this week as part of a dayslong hearing before a three-judge panel considering a lawsuit that claims the district was intentionally reconfigured to discriminate against voters of color in Tarrant County.

Under the map passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, some Black and Hispanic populations previously in District 10 were split into two other districts with majority-white electorates. The Black and Hispanic voters who remain in the newly drawn District 10, in urban areas of south Fort Worth, were lumped in with several rural, mostly white counties to the south and west that drive up the district’s population of white eligible voters while diminishing the number of voters of color.

A group of plaintiffs — including state Sen. Beverly Powell, D-Burleson, who represents the current SD-10 — is asking the federal judges to throw out the new district ahead of the March primaries.

Seliger chaired the Senate’s redistricting committee last decade, redrawing the state’s maps following the 2010 census when a similar attempt to reshape the district was found to be discriminatory. A federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled in 2012 that lawmakers had discriminated against voters of color in dismantling the district and cracking apart their communities. As a result, the Legislature went back to restore the district’s configuration.

Seliger affirmed his declaration in a video deposition taken earlier this month — portions of which were played in open court in El Paso this week — during which he also said that “pretextual reasons” were given for how political boundaries were decided during the 2021 redistricting process.

 

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Yikes

 

[mplsdunk]

Michelle Obama and her running mate will wipe the floor with trump and rogan.

 

[dmbrhs]

Yikes

I wonder how much money he made in donations based on that line alone. The grift never ends.

 

[Zainjal26]

Michelle Obama and her running mate will wipe the floor with trump and rogan.

It’s gonna be nice seeing her on jre though

 

[mplsdunk]

It’s gonna be nice seeing her on jre though

Is she actually going on?

The way people listen to and look up to podcasters here it won’t surprise me if you get one running for president.

 

[dinyc3st]

It’s gonna be nice seeing her on jre though

she's really gonna be a guest?

 

[gry60]

Someone said Canada downloaded the Murica DLC...

 

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Someone said Canada downloaded the Murica DLC...

Paid for the battle pass

 

[wavycrocket]

Dude said the prosecutors are racist against him

 

[mplsdunk]

doesn't want a vaccine forced on him, supports a dictator with a swazi flag.

can't make this **** up.

 

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“her name is suzy skrew because she screwed a lot”

 

[gry60]

“her name is suzy skrew because she screwed a lot”

Why does the part of the media that is not English-speaking Russian propaganda still bother asking Republicans what they think?

They must miss the threatening environment these bozos created the last time they control the government.

And to speak of the SC nomination, it is very likely that Harris will help a sister out with the tie-breaker vote, and I could see Joe Manchin having a problem with giving these two black women so much power. Think about what they'll say in WV about his inability to obstruct the "progressive agenda"...

 

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[Wargames]

Yeah this was so cringeworthy…

 

[Zainjal26]

Is she actually going on?

The way people listen to and look up to podcasters here it won’t surprise me if you get one running for president.

she's really gonna be a guest?

At some point I hope