The Texas state flag flies alongside the logo from the U.S. Department of Justice. (Getty Images/DOJ)
"We have notified Texas of grave concerns about congressional districts drawn with racial motivations, and we are suing other jurisdictions where there is evidence of ineligible voters on their voter rolls," Dhillon continued Wednesday. "Our job is to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. On this anniversary we honor the voting rights act not just by remembering it but by enforcing it for all Americans."
Democrats have decried Republicans for pushing a partisan process, but the Justice Department has said the move is an effort to promote fairer districts. The DOJ's July letter says four of Texas's districts currently constitute "unconstitutional ’coalition districts.'" The letter goes on to assert that courts have ruled that "coalition districts" run afoul of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, talks at 2023 Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in Dana Point, California, on January 27, 2023 (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
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"We took a look at Texas, and we found that four of their districts in Texas are comprised of these so-called coalition districts," Dhillon said Tuesday on the "Just the News, No Noise," a show aired by Real America's Voice.
"In other words, to get to a special minority district, you have to add together multiple minorities or count on a certain percentage of a crossover white vote. And this is too complex, too weird and too inconsistent with equal protection."
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