A federal court has blocked Texas from using a new Republican-backed congressional map that aimed to flip several Democratic seats in the 2026 midterms. The three-judge panel ruled that Governor Greg Abbott directed lawmakers to redraw districts based on race, violating constitutional protections. The court found “substantial evidence” of racial gerrymandering and said the map diluted Black and Latino voting strength.
00:00There are questions about whether or not Black and Latino vote strength is diluted by the creation of these districts.
00:09And so for that reason, we see the court kind of stepping in and putting a pause on these districts to allow for that type of investigation to happen.
00:21Okay, so here's Almeda. If you go back to Herman Park, like Almeda is the line.
00:28So literally people who live across directly across the street from me is a totally different district as it is.
00:36It is unconstitutional to draw district lines with race as the primary factor.
00:43And it's also a violation of the Voting Rights Act to purposely draw district lines in such a way that minority groups.
00:53And so that could be based on race. It could also be based on language.
00:58So what the allegation here is that the way Texas drew its lines, it is actually diluting the voting strength of minority voters.
01:25So in particular, one of the decisions that was made in this redistricting round was one to look at kind of Harris County and to try to get another Republican district out of a part of Texas that does have a large African-American population.
01:39And then in particular, given the fact that one of the fastest growing groups in the state of Texas are Latino voters, the idea that this new redistricting didn't actually create a district where Latinos are probably going to be the influential group could also raise questions about whether or not you're actually diluting Latino vote strength.
02:01And so this happens through a couple of different means.
02:04I mean, it's a bit more seen.
02:10Yeah.
02:12I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
02:42I think there's the big question about the appropriateness of doing a mid-decade redistricting
02:49for political purposes. Now, to be sure, this is not the first decade that something like this has
02:54happened. It certainly isn't even the first time that this has happened in Texas in particular,
02:59but now there may be a little bit more public debate about whether or not this is appropriate
03:04behavior or whether or not the ends justify the means politically.
03:12So, I'm going to go to this point, but I work and I work and I really, really, really
03:23about a lot of people of the country. So, I'm going to go look at this point here, and
03:29if you have any questions about what you said earlier, like this, I'm going to look at
03:34the落 and a brief discussion.
03:39I'm sorry, Mr. President, if you want to do something else, you have to do something else.
03:48I'm sorry, Mr. President, if you want to do something else, you have to do something else.
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