Eric Holder to tear into Supreme Court as major redistricting decision looms

Source: Politico

11/22/2025 12:08 PM EST


Former Attorney General Eric Holder will assail the Supreme Court in a speech Saturday as the high court prepares to weigh in on a number of key redistricting cases that could dramatically reshape the balance of power in Congress.

Holder, who spent six years heading up the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, now serves as chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. The high court, he will say in a keynote address at the annual Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers Foundation Gala, has issued rulings based not on “neutral jurisprudence,” but on “outcome-driven ideology.”

“We have watched as campaign finance safeguards were dismantled and anti-corruption laws cast aside,” Holder will say in prepared remarks obtained exclusively by POLITICO ahead of his speech. “We have seen the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act and the Court’s refusal to restrain abusive partisan gerrymandering. Now, even what remains of the Voting Rights Act, Section 2, is hanging by a thread – threatened in ways that could legalize racial gerrymandering and shift the partisan makeup of as many as nineteen congressional seats through judicial fiat.”

The court has found itself at the center of a national debate over the limits of redistricting since the 2020 census. Louisiana in August asked the court to ban the use of race in redistricting that has been seen as central to increasing the representation of Black, Latino and other minority voters in federal, state and local government. The court is expected to issue a decision by June 2026, one that could wipe out majority-minority districts.

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