Former AG Holder: 'Our democracy is under attack'
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 10/24/17 10:10 AM EDT
Former Attorney General Eric Holder is hoping to fight back against Republican redistricting, which he called an attack on democracy.
“If you look at gerrymandering, we have a system where politicans are picking their voters instead of citizens picking their representatives,” Holder told Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Monday. “You look at the way in which voter suppression laws have been passed, we’re coming to be a country that’s inconsistent with our founding ideals, and the notion of one man one vote is really under attack.”
Holder, who served as attorney general under President Obama, is the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a group that focuses on redistricting.
Holder called his group a “partisan attempt at good government,” saying he isn’t seeking to redistrict in favor of Democrats, but rather to make elections battles between ideas. The new lines would be drawn following the 2020 census.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/356847-former-ag-holder-our-democracy-is-under-attack
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