{"id":12578,"date":"2018-04-04T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/common-cause-brief-urges-justices-to-overturn-texas-districts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:00:20","slug":"common-cause-brief-urges-justices-to-overturn-texas-districts","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/common-cause-brief-urges-justices-to-overturn-texas-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Brief Urges Justices To Overturn Texas Districts"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12578","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":null,"related_issues":[103,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common Cause is joining in a legal challenge to Texas legislative districts that federal courts have twice ruled were gerrymandered by the state legislature to discriminate against Latino voters.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partnering with the Voting Rights Institute in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the case of\u00a0<i><em>Abbott laban kay Perez<\/em><\/i>, the nonpartisan watchdog group argued that districts revised by Texas lawmakers in 2013 failed to address \u2013 much less remedy \u2013 the racial discrimination a federal judge had found in an earlier set of district boundaries.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe scofflaw actions of the Texas Legislature must be reined in by our nation\u2019s highest court,\u201d said Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn. \u201cIf the court does not act, we risk slipping back into one of our nation\u2019s darkest chapters before the Voting Rights Act prohibited race-based voter suppression tactics that were common in the post-Reconstruction South.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEvery Texan deserves fair and equal representation, but the legislature's insistence on trying to predetermine the outcome of our elections has denied many members of minority communities that representation and led to this seemingly endless litigation,\u201d said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJust as our nation\u2019s highest court did during the Jim Crow era,\u201d Gutierrez added, \u201cwe are confident that the Supreme Court will act once again to strike down this effort by the Texas Legislature to draw district lines to deny minority communities their right to equal representation under the Voting Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><em>Abbott laban kay Perez<\/em><\/i>\u00a0is set for argument in the high court on April 24.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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