This matters because, as Texas Republicans were trying to decide whether to redraw the state's maps earlier this year, Trump's Justice Department wrote a letter threatening to sue the state unless it enacted an illegal racial gerrymander. The letter claimed, falsely, that it is illegal for a state to draw any map that includes a district where white people are in the minority, and two other racial groups make up the majority. DOJ told Texas that it must redraw its congressional maps to eliminate several districts that fit this description...
https://www.vox.com/politics/470984/supreme-court-texas-republican-gerrymander-inept
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