{"id":2778,"date":"2018-06-25T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:29:00","slug":"dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Supreme Court Protecting Racial Discrimination in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left:4pt;\"><span id=\"m_1432383220815566166gmail-docs-internal-guid-b23cf621-37f1-7d64-51f1-185ae83e882d\">DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case of Abbott v. Perez:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left:4pt;\"><span id=\"m_1432383220815566166gmail-docs-internal-guid-b23cf621-37f1-7d64-51f1-185ae83e882d\">&ldquo;Today, the Supreme Court decided to protect racial discrimination in Texas. Let&rsquo;s be clear: Texas lawmakers drew districts that clearly and methodically discriminated against Latino and African American voters. And Texas isn&rsquo;t alone. Racial discrimination is a cornerstone of the Republican electoral playbook. All across the country, Republicans are trying to tilt elections in their favor by making it harder for people to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left:4pt;\"><span id=\"m_1432383220815566166gmail-docs-internal-guid-b23cf621-37f1-7d64-51f1-185ae83e882d\">&ldquo;Elections have consequences. In fact, Republicans are so determined to make it harder for people to vote that they held a Supreme Court seat hostage for nearly a year in order to nominate a judge who supports voter suppression. And that unprecedented obstruction is what ultimately made the difference in the outcome of this case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left:4pt;\"><span id=\"m_1432383220815566166gmail-docs-internal-guid-b23cf621-37f1-7d64-51f1-185ae83e882d\">&ldquo;These attacks undermine our democracy and deny millions of voters, especially people of color, a meaningful voice at the ballot box. Voters should get to choose their leaders, not the other way around. And Democrats will continue to hold Republicans accountable as we fight to protect the one right that preserves all others &mdash; the right to vote.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case of Abbott v. Perez: &nbsp; &ldquo;Today, the Supreme Court decided to protect racial discrimination in Texas. Let&rsquo;s be clear: Texas lawmakers drew districts that clearly and methodically discriminated against Latino and African American voters. And Texas <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Supreme Court Protecting Racial Discrimination in Texas - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-25T17:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-supreme-court-protecting-racial-discrimination-in-texas\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Supreme Court Protecting Racial Discrimination in Texas - 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