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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Sameea Kamal

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Federal trial opens to determine whether texas discriminated in redrawn redistricting maps | Mind Blowing Facts

Salman Bhojani, a former candidate for Texas Senate District 9, shows where he lives on an updated map that now draws him out of District 9 and now into District 2, at his offices in Irving, on Oct. 17, 2021. Bhojani suspended his campaign after state legislature adopted new district maps which draws Bhojani's home out of District 9.
Maps based on the 2020 census designating districts within Texas for state and congressional offices are the focus of a discrimination case that is being heard in federal court. (Credit: Ben Torres for The Texas Tribune)

Do Texas’ district maps discriminate against some Black and Latino voters? That’s what advocates will allege in court Wednesday, while the state will argue that those communities can elect the candidates they want.

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