![]() ![]() ![]() Beloved cyclist 'foreshadowed' his own death on Texas roads.Texas GOP chair Allen West involved in physical altercation at Dallas airport over mask, campaign says.Terry's cooking up new location on San Antonio's far West Side Twitter erupts after Texas family tells CNN they buy 12 gallons of milk a week.It alleges that Republican mapmakers diluted the political strength of minority voters by not drawing any new districts where Latino residents hold a majority, despite Latinos making up half of Texas' 4 million new residents over the last decade.Ī spokesperson for Abbott, who is named in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Her organization filed the lawsuit along with several other minority rights groups in federal court in Texas. “Texas is using all the means at its disposal to prevent the inevitable change in the Texas electorate,” said Nina Perales, an attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Democratic lawmakers twice walked out on an elections bill that tightened the state's already strict voting rules, which they called a brazen attempt to disenfranchise minorities and other Democratic-leaning voters. The maps that overhaul how Texas' nearly 30 million residents are sorted into political districts - and who is elected to represent them - bookends a highly charged year in the state over voting rights. ![]()
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