Texas Back in Court With U.S. in Minority Voting Fight; Bryan Sells Quoted

From the BloombergBusiness article, Texas Back in Court With U.S. in Minority Voting Fight:

Texas will continue using biased election maps to discriminate against black and Latino voters unless ordered to stop, Justice Department lawyers told a panel of U.S. judges as the state's long-running redistricting trial resumed today in San Antonio.

“We’re here because the State of Texas, as it has in every redistricting cycle since 1970, adopted redistricting plans that discriminate against its minority citizens,” Bryan Sells, a Justice Department lawyer, told a trio of San Antonio judges today. “We have evidence that vote dilution was anything but accidental.”

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