A federal court in Texas last week dismissed an attempt to force the Texas Legislature to redraw its Senate District boundaries based on the voting electorate rather than population. Such exclusionary redistricting would create dramatic disparities in district size, based on non-citizen and minor population. “These repeated, pernicious attempts to discount some persons, including large numbers of future voting citizens, in drawing legislative districts seek to take our country back to the 19th century when a devil’s bargain placed a provision in our original Constitution that counted some residents as only three-fifths of a person. We must work to ensure that these purveyors of apartheid to face defeat in the courtroom.” – Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President & General Counsel
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:06:30 +0000
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