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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Dante Motley

Voting Rights Act doesn’t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules

The Galveston County Courthouse on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
The Galveston County Courthouse on May 16, 2024. (Credit: Joseph Bui for The Texas Tribune)

Coalitions of minority groups cannot band together to claim that political maps constitute discriminatory gerrymandering, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Galveston County lawsuit.

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