The NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights organization, asked a court Tuesday to block what it called a “racially motivated” congressional map that dilutes the political power of Black voters.

The organization filed an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division, seeking to prevent Texas’s redrawn congressional map from taking effect, claiming the new district map is unconstitutional. In 2021, Republican lawmakers drew a new map after the 2020 Census, and the NAACP and others sued, arguing the districts were racially discriminatory. A panel of judges held a trial this year but has not yet ruled.

“It’s quite obvious that Texas’s effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year’s midterm elections, is racially motivated. The state’s

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