A group of Tarrant County residents who sued over the county’s redistricting process did not prove the new map is racially discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Tarrant County’s Republican commissioners pushed through an unusual mid-decade redistricting process earlier this year. They argued their plan was to grow their majority on the court, and race had nothing to do with it. Critics said the new map illegally diluted the power of Black and brown voters, packing them into a single precinct.

The county has been sued twice over the new map, and judges have declined to block the maps in both cases . The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision in the first lawsuit, Jackson et. al. v. Tarrant County , in a ruling Wednesday.

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