MESSING WITH TEXAS
THREE CASES THAT COULD DRAMATICALLY CHANGE VOTING RIGHTS IN AMERICA
FROM 2000 TO 2010, Texas’ population ballooned by 4.3 million people, giving the state four new congressional seats. Latinos and African Americans accounted for roughly 80 percent of that growth. But when Texas drew new political maps in 2011, it created four majority-white, safe Republican districts. The Supreme Court could rule next year on the constitutionality of this extreme gerrymandering, as well
