This week, a court threw out Texas newly drawn gerrymandered maps saying they were a violation of the voting rights act.

Meanwhile, the DOJ sues Californians Prop 50 saying that was a violation of the voting rights act.

All of this, of course, is heading to the Supreme Court who just recently heard a case around, yes, the Voting Rights Act. That and will this even

matter in Texas what the courts end up deciding because of how they were drawn and how they

were specifically trying to count Latino voters as Trump voters. My name is Dina Dahl and this is the

Midas Touch Network. Let's get into this.

So ironically, the Voting Rights Act is both being used in a way by the DOJ against California,

and then they're trying to say that the Voting Rights Act doesn't apply in Texas.

As we know, the Republicans already argued to the Supreme Court that the Voting

Rights Act, section two, should be just thrown out entirely. Now, this is where this is all

most likely going to land and the law on all of this in case it seems a little bit confusing,

definitely inconsistent by the DOJ and Trump and the Republicans,

which is not a surprise. But in terms of the Texas case specifically, because this is where

we have a ruling, the three judge panel ruled that this was a violation of the Voting Rights

Act because they said that the maps were drawn not for a political purpose, but for a race-based

purpose. Now, the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that parties, states can draw their maps for political

purposes and that courts shouldn't interfere, that this was legal. And in fact, Louisiana,

in the Supreme Court case that was heard in October, which was a rehearing of the case that was

heard in the spring, Louisiana at first tried to defend their maps before flipping size when

Trump wanted them to flip it.

But when they were first defending their maps, they said that they weren't drawing it based on race,

but they were drawing it for political reasons in order to keep Mike Johnson in office.

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