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State of texas for vote delusion. essentially saying that the new maps, the new maps signed into law for congressional and state house districts in the state of texas would underrepresent latino voters in the lone star state. i want to bring in jane tim, our justice correspondent pete williams you heard will join us in a moment. jane, we have both covered this extensively. a lot of folks in texas. a lot of democrats thought lawsuits against these maps would be inevitable, and there were some already filed. now the justice department is stepping in here. can you explain to people the issue here...

Population. and yet, in the two new house districts that texas got in congress, both of them were designed to be districts in which whites had the majority. not the people who were actually gaining the population. not only that, the justice department says the new plan takes away a latino majority district in west texas, carves out a number of latinos from dallas-fort worth area and makes a lot of other changes that dilute the attempt for latinos to elect the people of their choice. this is not about inability to vote. it's about inability to elect the people that you want. that's called vote ...

Has racial disparity. >> one of the problems is that the chief justice ignores vote delusion and other types of discrimination. the population of latinos rose to 56% in population. incumbents manipulated rules to ensure they wouldn't control a majority of the county commission seats, right? that is a continuing problem. >> right. media matters took a look at what opponents were saying in 1965 and it really echos quite directly what we're hearing now from the right wing. let's just take a listen. >> i'm sorry. you shouldn't be able to prove who you are before you cast a ballot. >> the civil rig...