These United States are in the midst of creating new Congressional maps for the 2022 election., Things don’t look great for the Democrats. Because core Democrat-states experienced a decline in population, large numbers of residents voted for them. This led to many people moving on to Red States. Making matters worse for the Democrats, in 23 states, the GOP controls the state legislature and the governor’s mansion. This advantage is only available to the Democrats in 14 of these states. While Illinois Democrats are able to rejoice at the expulsion of Adam Kinzinger (arch-conservative), Texas is now in control by two additional seats.
The Department of Justice also joined the fray.
Thank you so much for your visit. The Justice Department filed today a lawsuit against Texas, accusing it of violating Section 2 of its Voting Rights Act. As the Supreme Court has observed, a core principle of our democracy is that “voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.”
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires that state voting laws – including laws that draw electoral maps – provide eligible voters with an equal opportunity to participate in the democratic process and elect representatives of their choosing.
Today’s complaint alleges Texas violated Section 2. Redistricting plans were created that denied or abrogated the right of Latino voters and Black voters to vote based on their race, color, or membership in a minority language group. Our complaint will be further described by Associate Attorney General Gupta in a moment.
As many of you know, in 2013, the Supreme Court effectively eliminated the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which had been the department’s best tool for protecting voting rights.
I had noted earlier this year that the redistricting process would be the first since 1960, without preclearance. However, I stated that my department will continue to protect the rights to vote and would make use of all resources and authorities available to do so.
In September, the department published guidance based on decades of precedent explaining that Section 2 prohibits “vote dilution.” Vote dilution occurs when an electoral practice minimizes or cancels out the voting strength of members of a racial group or language minority group.
When we issued that guidance, I noted that discriminatory redistricting schemes are illegal and that the department would “assess jurisdictions’ compliance with those laws during this redistricting cycle.”
The department’s career voting law experts have assessed Texas’s new redistricting plans and determined that they include districts that violate the Voting Rights Act.
A separate suit was filed against Texas by us last month. We alleged that Texas Senate Bill 1 restricts assistance to voters with disabilities who can’t read or write.
We filed last week a statement in interest in Arizona litigation. It explained that Arizona’s new voting laws were made with discriminatory intent by private plaintiffs.
A statement of interest was also filed in Florida, explaining that the Voting Rights act can be enforced by private parties. Before taking any action, we carefully analyzed all the relevant facts.
Thank you to all the Voting Section staff for your tireless work to ensure that every citizen is able to exercise their right to vote.
Before I conclude, I want to again urge Congress to restore the Justice Department’s preclearance authority. This complaint would have been canceled if the preclearance mechanism had not been in place.
It takes a while to understand what the nutter is trying to say. This man declares that Texas’ most probable map is one which adds five solid Democrat votes. It also prevents Black voters and Hispanics from voting.
Venita Gopta, his puppet master, gave her the details.
We believe that the fundamental right of every citizen to vote is a foundational right for democracy. It is up to the Justice Department to protect this right. Today, we are filing suit against the State of Texas based on our determination that Texas’ 2021 Redistricting Plans violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. After careful consideration of all facts and law, the department made this determination.
I want to thank the career staff of the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section for their tremendous efforts on this investigation.
Today’s complaint alleges that redistricting plans in Texas, approved by the Texas legislature and signed by Governor Rick Perry will prevent Black and Latino voters from having equal access to the vote and elect their representatives. This is a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Our complaint alleges also that many of these districts were drawn discriminatorily.
Texas’ 2021 redistricting plans were enacted through a rushed process, with minimal opportunity for public comment, without any expert testimony, and with an overall disregard for the massive minority population growth in Texas over the last decade. Texas’ population grew by 4 million people from 2010 to 2020, and 95% of that growth came from minority populations. The new redistricting laws will prevent minority voters from having equal access to the representatives they choose, despite the significant rise in eligible Latino/Black voters. Instead, our investigation determined that Texas’ redistricting plans will dilute the increased minority voting strength that should have developed from these significant demographic shifts.
For example, Texas will gain two new Congressional seats because of its population growth, almost all of which is due to growth in the state’s minority population. But, Texas designed the new seats so that they have white majorities.
In order to remove the possibility for Latino voters from electing a representative, the congress plan deliberately reconfigured West Texas districts. The Texas legislature has now eliminated the Latino election opportunity from the same district for the third time in 30 years, in spite of previous court rulings.
The State House Plan eliminated Latino election opportunities, manipulating and eliminating areas where Latino communities had previously elected their preferred candidates.
This redistricting plan will make it harder for Latinos and Black Texas voters, to elect their representatives. This is against federal law.
According to the complaint, Texas must be prohibited from holding elections according to the challenged plans. Additionally, Texas should be required to develop and implement redistricting plans in accordance with Section 2 of The Voting Rights Act. Also, the complaint requests that the court establish interim plans in order to permit a lawful state-wide redistricting.
Texas isn’t the only state to have attempted to limit the rights of minorities. Ten years after the fact, Texas courts found redistricting plans to deliberately reduce the voting strength for Latinos and Black voters. This is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
He has stated that the Justice Department would not tolerate any unlawful efforts to limit access to the ballot. Today’s filing demonstrates that commitment to this charge.
The Justice Department will protect constitutionally guaranteed voting rights in Texas and across the nation.
Here are some thoughts.
This lawsuit is a classic Gupta. Gupta is a racist who believes that the nation cannot see past their skin colour. She’s as vile a racist as ever wore a blue jacket and khaki trousers while marching near the US Capitol. If she were to be employed in a normal society she wouldn’t be. Below is Senator Tom Cotton’s description of her during her confirmation hearing. Here is the link to read his comments. Her world is based on the belief that Black, Hispanic or Asian Americans are not entitled to representation in the United States unless they have someone with the same skin color. You can see that she claims that Texas received two more seats as a result of increasing minority voter participation. These two seats are now owned by minority voters. The idea that all outcomes must reflect racial and ethnic proportions is straight out of Critical Race Theory, reflecting the “equity” component of what the racist left calls “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” The entire theory is utterly obscene.
The lawsuit has no chance of success. Unless Gupta has evidence that the Texas legislature drew these districts with race in mind–not just race as a proxy for party affiliation but actual race–the US government has engaged in a bad faith use of the legal system for partisan gain. The new Texas map, which adds five solid Democrat spots to Texas’ delegation, has been ruled by the Supreme Court that the drawing of districts in order to gain partisan advantage cannot be reviewed by courts. Again, I’ll refer you to a pile of screaming butthurt at the noted intellectual journal Vox.com for more background on that decision.
This lawsuit serves one purpose, according to me. It is intended to undermine the Constitutional authority of states to draw Congressional Districts. The goal is to bring back the “salad days” when the Department of Justice wielded veto power over legislative districts in all or part of 15 states by the odious “preclearance” process. Better yet, the Democrats want to subject every election to federal oversight and procedures under the “John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021.”
One also can’t discount the role this lawsuit will play in the 2022 remake of the Democrat classic, “All Republicans Are Racists.” As I noted in my post on the Boebert vs. Omar beatdown (see Ilhan Omar Brags That Nancy Pelosi Will Strip Lauren Boebert of Her Committee Assignments and She’s Probably Right), Omar is using a joke where she is the punchline (she should be used to that by now, I mean how old is she?) to label Boebert and McCarthy as racists and islamophobes for poking fun at Suicide-Bomber-Americans.
As the Democrats set out to make the 2022 elections a floating firehose of malfeasanced confusion, expect to see much more.
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