The U.S. Department of Justice will act to crack down on the sort of "race-based gerrymandering" at the heart of the Texas redistricting fight, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Tuesday."We are ensuring that all 50 states have and continue to have clean voter roles. We are challenging efforts to suppress or dilute the vote. We are attacking illegal race-based gerrymandering. And we are protecting ballot access for all Americans," said Dhillon, who leads the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, in a video posted Tuesday marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.After D...

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