The NAACP and a lawyers’ civil rights group sued Texas , alleging the state’s new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act.

The Voting Rights Act prohibits a practice known as “racial gerrymandering,” or the act of redistricting to dilute or concentrate the voting power of minority voters based on their race.

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Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is expected to sign the map, which was passed by Texas Republicans in both chambers of the state legislature in an effort to garner five more Republican House seats. Dem

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