Talks in the Texas redistricting lawsuit were ordered by a federal judge to continue despite state Attorney General Greg Abbott’s announcement of a compromise, the Associated Press reports. Abbott's announcement had “prompted immediate pushback from several minority groups involved in the case.”
The compromise plan would have created two Hispanic-dominated congressional districts for this year’s election. But some of the groups involved in the lawsuit said the plan diluted “the voice of minority voters in some parts of the state.”
The judge, Orlando Garcia, and the two other judges hearing the lawsuit, which was brought against the state by groups arguing that the original congressional districts created by the Republican-controlled legislature were discriminatory, said if a draft compromise couldn’t be reached by Monday, the April 3 primary “would likely be delayed.”
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