Eric Holder group sues Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Source: CNN
Updated 2:35 PM ET, Tue February 27, 2018
Washington (CNN)Eric Holder is defending his anti-gerrymandering organization's decision to file suit against Scott Walker, saying it was meant to compel the Wisconsin governor to "do his job" and hold special elections for two vacant legislative seats.
The Obama-era attorney general told The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart Tuesday that Walker "has indicated that he wasn't going to fill (the vacant seats) until 2019."
"So people in those districts would have been un-represented over the course of the next year and we made the determination that we would sue on their behalf to tell him to do his job, which is told a special election," Holder said.
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Per Wisconsin state law, "any vacancy in the office of state senator or representative to the assembly occurring before the 2nd Tuesday in May in the year in which a regular election is held to fill that seat shall be filled as promptly as possible by special election." The seats at the center of the suit have been vacant since December, when two Republican lawmakers left their posts to join Walker's administration, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/eric-holder-wisconsin-lawsuit/index.html?sr=twCNNp022718eric-holder-wisconsin-lawsuit0343PMVODtop&CNNPolitics=Tw
Oh, it would be beautiful Karma if Walker is forced to hold elections.
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Laws are just for Democrats and peasants.....
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