First of all, I've been involved in redistricting litigation for more than 20 years now. Second, one thing that spurred all of this is a federal court decision that came out last year, by the way, A federal court decision that came out last year said that Texas is no longer required to have coalition districts. And as a result, we had drawn maps of coalition districts in it. Now we wanted to remove those coalition districts and draw them in ways that in fact turned out to provide more seats for Hispanics, for example, for the districts are predominantly Hispanic. (02:51–02:59)
CLAIM
Asserts that a federal court decision stated Texas is not required to have coalition districts.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
