FORT WORTH, Texas — A lawsuit filed this week against Tarrant County, its commissioners' court, and County Judge Tim O'Hare is accusing them of racial discrimination.

Filed on behalf of the Texas Civil Rights Project, the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the suit accuses the county of engaging in unprecedented and unneeded mid-decade redistricting to reduce Black and Latino voters' electoral power .

The suit argues that this "secretive rushed process" violated the Texas Open Meeting Act, and that the redistricting violates the state's anti-discrimination laws by burdening Black and Latino voters' right to vote.

“Tarrant County is one of the fastest growing and most diverse counties in Texas,” said Nina Oishi, Voting Rig

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