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ByMarkSherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON The grow- ing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional require- ment to make electoral dis- tricts roughly equal in pop- ulation. Two voters in Texas are asking the court, in argu- ments set for Tuesday, to order a drastic change in the way Texas and all other states divide their electoral districts. Rather than bas- ing the maps on total pop- ulation, including non-cit- izens and children who aren't old enough to vote, states must count only peo- ple who are eligible to vote, the challengers say. They ar- gue that change is needed to carry out the principle of one person, one vote. They claim that taking account of total population can lead to vast differences in the number of voters in particular districts, along with corresponding differ- ences in the power of those voters. A court ruling in their fa- vor would shift more power to rural areas and away from urban districts in which there are large immi- grant populations that are ineligible to vote because they are too young or not citizens. Civil rights groups note that Texas was the big win- ner in the 2010 census when it picked up four congres- sional seats, due mainly to growth in its Hispanic pop- ulation. There's only one expla- nation for the court fight, said Thomas Saenz, pres- ident and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund. "The plaintiffs in Texas are in- terested in stemming the growth of Latino political power," he said. The legal challenge is being financed by Edward Blum, whose Project on Fair Representation also is behind a Texas affirmative action challenge that will be argued before the high court on Wednesday, as well as the lawsuit that led to the 2013 decision that wiped away a key element of the federal Voting Rights Act. A second case on Tues- day's agenda also involves the one-person, one-vote principle that the high court established in Reynolds v. Sims in 1964. The court held that a state's legislative districts must have roughly equal numbers of people. In a dispute from Ari- zona, the justices are weigh- ing whether even small dif- ferences in population among districts are appro- priate if they are done for partisan advantage or to comply with the now-nul- lified advance-approval re- quirement in the Voting Rights Act. Arizona voters who are challenging the decisions of an independent redis- tricting commission claim that Democrats benefited from the legislative dis- trict boundaries. The com- mission denies that its maps were drawn to ben- efit Democratic candidates and maintains that the Su- preme Court has upheld small differences in popu- lation among districts. ELECTORAL DISTRICTS Justices take up meaning of 'one person, one vote' By Lorne Cook and John-Thor Dahlburg The Associated Press BRUSSELS Belgian and French authorities were hunting two new suspects Friday in the Paris attacks who they say used fake identity cards around Eu- rope and sent money to a relative of the man who or- chestrated the attacks the day before the ringleader died in a shootout with French police. The two men, carrying bogus ID in the names of Samir Bouzid and Soufi- ane Kayal, had been trav- eling in a Mercedes with another Paris attacks fugi- tive, Salah Abdeslam, when the car was checked Sept. 9 at the Hungarian-Austrian border, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday. The same Kayal ID was used to rent a house in the Belgian town of Auve- lais that authorities have searched as a possible site for making the suicide bombs used in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, the prosecu- tor's office said. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for those gun-and-bomb at- tacks that killed 130 peo- ple and wounded hundreds in Paris. Belgian authorities said about 6 p.m. on Nov. 17, four days after the Paris attacks, the false identity card in the name of Bou- zid was used at a Western Union office in the Brus- sels area to send a 750- euro ($817) money order to Hasna Ait Boulhacen, cousin of the purported attack ringleader, Abdelh- amid Abaaoud. Both Boulhacen and Abaaoud died a day later when French police stormed their hideout in a Paris suburb. The two new suspects "are being actively sought by Belgian and French po- lice services," the prosecu- tor's office said. Spurred into action by the Paris attacks, the inte- rior ministers of the Euro- pean Union moved Friday to grant law-enforcement agencies access to infor- mation gathered by air- lines — data like passen- gers' names, travel dates, itinerary, credit cards and contact details. The sharing of such data is meant to allow better scrutiny of known or sus- pected extremists. Under the passenger data deal, details would be collected from Euro- pean carrier flights en- tering or leaving the EU, as well as from flights be- tween member countries. Charter flights will be in- cluded, and all the informa- tion will be kept on file for six months. Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider, who chaired the meeting in Brussels, ex- pressed his "pride that af- ter so many years of nego- tiations, we have now been able to conclude an agree- ment." The passenger record agreement proposal was first made in 2007, but it languished in the Euro- pean Parliament for years as EU lawmakers struggled to strike the right balance between security concerns and privacy rights. The as- sembly must still endorse the deal but that is likely to happen within the next month. TERRORIST ATTACKS Be lg ia ns s ee ki ng 2 n ew suspects in Paris probe CHRISTOPHEENA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Men work on the shop front of the cafe "La bonne biere," one of the establishments targeted during the November Paris attacks, in Paris on Thursday. By Seth Borenstein, Angela Charlton and Karl Ritter The Associated Press PARIS In climate math, the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees is much greater than 0.5. Small nations say that for them, that half-de- gree could mean the dif- ference between life and death. For larger nations, the question is what's real- istic and what's not when it comes to limiting global warming. The broader issue is how much warming is too much. In 2010, interna- tional negotiators formally adopted a goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees Cel- sius (3.6 degrees Fahren- heit) over pre-industrial times; Earth has already warmed nearly 1 degree. The warming goal is what experts call a guard- rail, and it has the potential to derail the climate talks going on in Paris if negoti- ators can't agree on a num- ber. Small island nations — like the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and St. Lucia — and some other countries are pushing 1.5 because they see it as an issue of sur- vival. They talk about sea level rise inundating cities, salt water killing off crops, and more dangerous storms wiping out cities. "It's a fight that really should not be focused on numbers, 1.5, 2, 2.5," said James Fletcher, St. Lucia's minister for sustainable de- velopment, energy, science, and technology. "It should be focused on lives. We're not fighting for numbers, we're fighting for lives." Climate scientists say both numbers are a bit ar- bitrary, but keeping warm- ing to 1.5 degrees could in- crease the chance of sur- vival for coral reefs, slow the rise in the number of ever-increasing severe weather disasters, and help keep the planet from hitting dreaded but so far unseen tipping points of irrevers- ible environmental damage. "There is no such thing as a guardrail where we are free from all the impacts of climate change; we've al- ready seen climate change and it's widespread," said Chris Field, a Carnegie Institution scientist who headed an international scientific assessment of cli- mate impacts two years ago. For some countries, keeping warming to 1.5 degrees may require steep and painful cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas. But United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres and climate talks president Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minis- ter, were optimistic about compromise. 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