Appellate judges in Texas are split on whether a county violated the Voting Rights Act by splitting up a Black and Latino district.
A Texas appeals court is deciding whether to uphold a lower court's decision against splitting a Black voting district to create a predominately white one.
Since the Voting Rights Act's gutting in the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby v. Holder, the procedural guardrails that would flag issues like those in the Texas maps no longer exist.