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Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Back issues
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Inmate congressional districts

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas inmate filed a federal class action saying the state’s “legal fiction” of assigning him to a congressional district he does not permanently live in violates his constitutional right to equal representation.

Click here to read the complaint.  

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