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In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps (www.democracydocket.com)

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Lawyers for the state of Texas spent nine days in a recently concluded federal hearing insisting that the state didn’t discriminate against Black and brown voters when it drew its new gerrymandered congressional map this summer.

But they fought tooth and nail during the hearing to keep as little information as possible from coming out about the mapmaking process.

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, what happened with the Gerrymandering war that happened a few months ago? Buncha red states redrew their maps and some blue states said they would? They still doing that or are we boned?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

We're boned.