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Vincent Perez: “States like North Carolina, Louisiana and Texas are…”

Featuring: Vincent Perez, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 77

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Texas Redistricting: Breaking Quorum to Protect Voting Rights with Rep Vince Perez

Published | Video Starts at 07:24

So for the last 12 years, we've been in a situation where states like Texas and other Southern states that have had a history of racism now don't have any more requirements to check their maps ahead of time. So States like North Carolina, Louisiana and Texas are deliberately passing very segregationist maps. to see what they can get away with. And so far the courts have overturned, even conservative courts have overturned what's one in Louisiana, one in Alabama just got overturned this week. (07:24–07:31)

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Asserts that certain states are passing segregationist electoral maps.

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