Minority Group Files Lawsuit Against Tarrant County, Alleging Racially Gerrymandered Voting Map

Minority Group Files Lawsuit Against Tarrant County, Alleging Racially Gerrymandered Voting Map

After County Judge Tim O’Hare and his fellow Republican commissioners recently approved a new voting map that neuters the voices of local Blacks and Latinos, a group of minority voters filed a federal lawsuit accusing the commissioners of racial gerrymandering, violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. The GOP commissioners say they are acting in a partisan nature, which is constitutional, as opposed to racial, which is not. The…