At the link, you find the following summary of DOJ’s objections under Section 5 to the proposed redistricting plans for Texas. 

Civil rights lawyers say they have serious reservations about the new U.S. House plan, partly because it doesn’t create a single new district that’s majority Latino. What’s more, the federal lawyers say, they’ve uncovered evidence of intentional discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity by state and federal lawmakers in Texas. Their court brief cites emails that may show people improperly took racial data into account when they drew district boundaries.

This is an amazing allegation considering that the Voting Section conducts its analysis and prepares alternative “illustrative” plans based solely on the racial demographics of a district.  Rarely, if ever, is there an racially gerrymandered district that offends the racialists in the Voting Section.  So while DOJ believes it is more than appropriate for the Voting Section to go down to census block level numbers to determine the absolute precise racial makeup of a particular district, they have the gall to accuse Texas in court pleadings of intentional racial discrimination simply because they may have used this same data in their analysis. 

Outrageous.