Holder-affiliated group launches new challenge to partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina
A nonprofit organization connected to former Obama attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. is launching a new challenge to partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina, filing a lawsuit in state court seeking to throw out the state’s GOP-drawn congressional districts in time for the 2020 elections.
The suit, being filed Friday by the National Redistricting Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of a political committee led by Holder, aims to capitalize on a recent state ruling that portions of North Carolina’s state legislative districts are unconstitutionally gerrymandered to maximize Republicans’ advantage.
“For nearly a decade, the people of North Carolina have been forced to vote on manipulated electoral maps that were drawn by Republicans in the legislature to create a partisan outcome,” Holder said in a statement. “It’s time for this era of gerrymandering in North Carolina to come to an end.”
The suit quotes a three-judge panel in Wake County Superior Court, which wrote that district maps are unconstitutional if they are drawn “with a predominant intent to favor voters aligned with one political party at the expense of other voters.”
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