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Minority/majority districts, especially in the south. remember that states do this after every census. they take into account shifts in population, increases and decreases, and they adjust the boundaries of political lines. this particular case is about the a congressional line. two judges said that alabama should create a second district in which black voters would have a majority. they tend to vote cohesively, but they've been so split up that they can't elect the candidate of their choice. the supreme court put that ruling on hold. the court didn't give any explanation as for why it did thi...

Condemned you brown-jackson, i want to make sure other important stories don't get lost in the fog of war. this week, there were big developments on voting rights in the swing state of wisconsin. the supreme court sided with republicans in a dispute over state legislative districts dashing hopes for another black majority districts. in another ruling, the court rejected the gop's request to block wisconsin's congressional maps, drawn by democratic government tony evers. we history was made in jamaica when the prime minister told a visiting prince william that the caribbean nation wants to be i...

Over the past ten years. but that does not mean they get represented in congress. texas's new congressional map gives both of its new districts, two white majority voting populations. the new map reduces the number have a spanish majority districts from eight, to seven. despite the huge growth in the latino population, the new maps eliminating entirely texas only congressional district where black voters were the majority. even before governor greg abbott signed these new maps in the, law a group of latinos advocacy groups and citizens sued to try to stop these new maps from taking effect, aft...

Majority districts, 23. hispanic majority districts, 7. so there is a massive advantage being given to the white majority districts which will tend to vote more republican compared to all the other districts. the hispanic majority -- hispanics in the state, the people of color in the state, are the reason they got more congressional seats, but the reward for this is their influence politically is being diminished in the state by the republicans who can benefit from those extra seats, ana. >> and democrats have tried to pass a couple of voting rights bills. if those had made it through the sena...

Four statewide redistricting plans. you mentioned the congressional plan. that discriminates against latino voters, but so do the house of representatives' plan within texas, the texas house, the texas senate and the state board of education. all of those maps do not have latino majority districts in them commensurate with what the law requires. and so what we are asking the court to do is to block the maps drawn by the texas legislature and draw maps that comply with the voting rights act. >> there is something of an irony here, right, which is that republicans are drawing these maps and, you...