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BumRushDaShow

(158,625 posts)
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 06:10 PM Aug 2

Eric Holder on Why He Reversed Course on Gerrymandering

Source: New York Times

Aug. 2, 2025 Updated 9:44 a.m. ET


Eight years ago, Eric Holder, the attorney general in the Obama administration, embarked on a quest with a single, daunting goal: to eliminate politics from the process of drawing legislative districts. Through the organization he leads, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which has ties to Democrats, Mr. Holder has largely focused on fighting maps drawn by Republican legislatures, bringing legal challenges and political pressure in an effort to break Republican gerrymanders.

And while he has not always been as critical of Democrats, Mr. Holder has chastised some Democratic-led states and their legislatures for drawing egregious gerrymanders as well, arguing that “fairness for us is a weapon.”

But this week, something changed. Amid a contentious, Republican-led redistricting effort in Texas, Mr. Holder reversed course, arguing that Democrats should respond in kind, with their own aggressive gerrymander as a temporary salve in an increasingly fraught battle.

Democratic governors in several states, including California and New York, are considering rewriting laws or amending their states’ constitutions in order to redraw their maps.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/eric-holder-democrats-gerrymandering.html



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Holder is generally "less drama" than even "no drama Obama". So this indicates that his feathers are now ruffled!

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Eric Holder on Why He Reversed Course on Gerrymandering (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2 OP
What changed is The Fascist Six upheld partisan gerrymandering, then red states did it on steroids. SunSeeker Aug 2 #1
They like it when... Mike Nelson Aug 2 #2
Yeah, and they've got a 30+ year head start FoxNewsSucks Aug 2 #4
What changed is people are realizing Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2 #3
Don't wear boxing gloves to a gun fight. The Wizard Aug 2 #5
It isn't "ruffled feathers" Bluetus Aug 2 #6
Well for Eric Holder BumRushDaShow Aug 3 #8
This is an emergency. summer_in_TX Aug 3 #7

SunSeeker

(56,502 posts)
1. What changed is The Fascist Six upheld partisan gerrymandering, then red states did it on steroids.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 06:55 PM
Aug 2

We would be insane to continue doing our nonpartisan redistricting commissions in like of this new reality.

Mike Nelson

(10,707 posts)
2. They like it when...
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 07:59 PM
Aug 2

... Democrats sit back and try to "play fair," while they laugh. Gingrich declared WAR on the opposition party and it's gone from bad to worse. We should be aggressively looking at redrawing maps in every US State where we have that ability. Now.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,294 posts)
4. Yeah, and they've got a 30+ year head start
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 08:48 PM
Aug 2

on gerrymandering, media, and every other dirty trick or method to exploit.

Bluetus

(1,414 posts)
6. It isn't "ruffled feathers"
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 09:57 PM
Aug 2

It is the unpleasant realization that election rigging in this country has become so sever that we literally may never return to power if we don't go to war against the Republicans.

I wish this would have been realized 25 years ago. We may no longer have a path that averts totalitarianism here.

And they had better get damned serious about figuring our what Elon Musk did with the "election counting computers." Trump and Musk both basically confessed to election tampering and nobody can be bothered even enough to do the most basic audits of the "vote counting computers".

BumRushDaShow

(158,625 posts)
8. Well for Eric Holder
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:36 AM
Aug 3

who is the antithesis of "fiery" (if you have observed him in action, despite being an activist), this is notable.

summer_in_TX

(3,775 posts)
7. This is an emergency.
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 12:19 AM
Aug 3

Pro-democracy groups like the League of Women Voters seem to recognize what Holder does: without fighting fire with fire we cannot recover our democracy.

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