Say 'hello' again to Harmeet Dhillon, who makes her second RGD appearance today! Dhillon is assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Headline: Democracy Docket, 11/18/1025
Yunior Rivas reports:
The letter, signed by Dhillon, essentially handed the court a blueprint for dismantling the GOP’s strategy and exposed the racial motives behind their nationwide gerrymander push.
Dhillon insisted that, to address constitutional concerns, Texas had to dismantle minority coalition districts. The court found the directive illegible, legally unsupported, factually inaccurate and focused on race in ways that were constitutionally impermissible.
“It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors,” the judges wrote. “Indeed, even attorneys employed by the Texas Attorney General — who professes to be a political ally of the Trump Administration — describe the DOJ Letter as ‘legally unsound,’ ‘baseless,’ ‘erroneous,’ ‘ham-fisted,’ and ‘a mess.’” [emphasis added]
The judges noted that while Texas insisted the 2025 map was drawn for partisan reasons, the DOJ letter made no such claim and framed its demands entirely around race. That omission was pivotal.
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