A federal
court has found evidence of discrimination in Texas voting maps drawn by the
state's Republican-controlled Legislature.
The U.S.
District Court in Washington ruled in a lengthy opinion Tuesday that state
prosecutors failed to show Texas lawmakers did not draw congressional and state
Senate district maps "without discriminatory purposes."
Luis Vera,
an attorney for the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the ruling
"better late than never" and a win for his and other minority rights
groups that sued the state over the maps.
Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott immediately vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
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