U.S. Justice Dept. sues Galveston County, Texas, over a redistricting plan that it alleges discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters.
Justice Department lawyers accused officials in the GOP-dominated southeastern Texas county of deliberately making “drastic changes” to district lines to eliminate the sole district in which the county’s Black and Hispanic voters had an equal opportunity to elect preferred candidates.
“The 2021 commissioners court redistricting plan will result in denying or abridging the right of Black and Hispanic voters in Galveston County to participate equally in the political process,” the Justice Department said in its lawsuit, which asGalveston County Communications Director Zach Davidson declined to comment on the allegations, citing pending litigation.
Census data from 2020 show that the voting-age population of the county, which is on the Gulf Coast, is about 58 percent white, 22.5 percent Hispanic and 12.5 percent Black.
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