Eric Holder Urges Judges to Vote Democratic
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by Karl Rove,
The justices rejected his flawed argument, but he presses on with it in state court.
Mr. Holder argues that gerrymandering does more than give one party an advantage. He claims to find “a direct connection between gerrymandering and voter suppression.” This not-so-subtle accusation that GOP state legislators who drew district lines in 2011 were racist is a standard talking point for Mr. Holder, who raised $35 million through the NDRC and affiliates in 2018 to elect Democratic governors, legislators and state supreme-court justices. Organizing for America, an influential group created by Mr. Obama, has also contributed its valuable fundraising list to aid Mr. Holder’s efforts. The NDRC’s plan is to focus on 12 states in 2020, with special emphasis on Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.
Mr. Holder is not only trying to elect more Democrats; he’s also mounting court challenges to redistricting plans, drawing on the work of University of Chicago law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos and the Public Policy Institute of California’s Eric McGhee and their concept of “wasted votes.”
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