Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The NAACP is suing Texas over its new congressional maps, calling them racially gerrymandered in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
The nation's largest civil rights organization filed the motion Tuesday seeking a preliminary injunction against the new maps in ongoing litigation in a 2021 case it filed against Texas over its previously drawn maps, which it said "intentionally diluted the votes of Black Texans and other Texans of color."
"The State of Texas is only 40% White but White voters control over 73% of the state's congressional seats," Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement.
"It's quite obvious that Texas' effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year's midterm elections, is racially motivated. The state's intent here is to reduce the members of Congress who represent Black communities, and that in, and of itself, is unconstitutional."
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