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Oh Wow

by Josh Marshall
09.23.11 | 1:48 pm

The DOJ believes that the congressional and state House redistricting maps signed into law by Rick Perry were designed with the intention of discriminating against minorities. In other words, it doesn’t just have that effect. That was the idea.

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