{"id":8791,"date":"2024-08-03T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/voting-rights-act-doesnt-protect-coalitions-of-racial-or-ethnic-groups-challenging-political-maps-appeals-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:11:00","slug":"voting-rights-act-doesnt-protect-coalitions-of-racial-or-ethnic-groups-challenging-political-maps-appeals-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/voting-rights-act-doesnt-protect-coalitions-of-racial-or-ethnic-groups-challenging-political-maps-appeals-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights Act doesn\u2019t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Coalitions of minority groups cannot band together to claim that political maps constitute discriminatory gerrymandering, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Galveston County lawsuit. The 12-6 decision found that the Voting Rights Act\u2019s protections for individual racial or ethnic groups do not extend to multiple groups joining together to claim that political boundaries dilute their votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Coalitions of minority groups cannot band together to claim that political maps constitute discriminatory gerrymandering, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Galveston County lawsuit. The 12-6 decision found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}