the eric holder national democratic redistricting committee, this group that he founded with president obama, they re fighting that battle. they re trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolina s gerrymandered congressional map was found unconstitutional by a group of judges who found that the maps were motivated by invidious partisan intent. in february, the pennsylvania supreme court also took apart the republican gerrymandered maps for that state too. the court issued a new sort of technocratically drawn congressional map where the districts were redrawn to be more fair to both parties. so at least in those two states, the voting districts will already be more fair in time for
scott walker just keeps he keeps like, hit me, eric, and i m like, oh, okay, you know? that was march of this year, right after eric holder s group won that court battle against governor scott walker in wisconsin. a couple of months later, eric holder and his group notched another win when rebecca dallet won a ten-year term to the wisconsin supreme court. and it s weird to vote on judges, but they do in wisconsin. and in that race, that was the first time a candidate backed by liberals had won an open seat on that court in 23 years. eric holder had campaigned for dallet in madison and milwaukee, his group had pushed over $165,000 in digital ads to boost her campaign. meanwhile, a conservative candidate who governor scott walker personally endorsed for a different judgeship, that walker-endorsed candidate lost his race in that election. and just to put a little bit of icing on the cake, voters also rejected a republican ballot initiative that had been
keeps like, hit me, eric, and i m like, oh, okay, you know? that was march of this year, right after eric holder s group won that court battle against governor scott walker in wisconsin. a couple of months later, eric holder and his group notched another win, when rebecca dallet won a ten-year term to the wisconsin supreme court. and it s weird to vote on judges, but they do in wisconsin. and in that race, that was the first time a candidate backed by liberals had won an open seat on that court in 23 years. eric holder had campaigned for dallet in madison and milwaukee, his group had pushed over $165,000 in digital ads to boost her campaign. meanwhile, a conservative candidate who governor scott walker personally endorsed for a different judgeship, that walker-endorsed candidate lost his race in that election. and just to put a little bit of icing on the cake, voters also rejected a republican ballot initiative that had been supported by governor walker as well.
committee, this group that he founded with president obama, they re fighting that battle. they re trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolina s gerrymandered congressional map got ruled unconstitutional by a panel of federal judges who found that the maps were, quote, motivated by invidious partisan intent. in february, the pennsylvania supreme court also took apart the pro-republican gerrymandered maps for that state, too. the court issued a new sort of technocratically drawn congressional map where the districts were redrawn to be more fair to both parties. so, at least in those two states, the voting districts will already be more fair in
this year s midterm elections in november. and that s just one part of the multi-pronged strategy that eric holder s group is working on this year. steve kornacki got the group s executive director to explain what that effort looks like now and what to expect next. so when you look at the map, you know, democrats are trying to take, i think, 23 seats right thousand to get control of the house, where is gerrymandering, the gerrymandering you say republicans have done, where is that most prevalent on that house battle field right now? our map is to look at the map through every districting lens. and when you do that, you want to go after the states that are most gerrymandered. so those states are ohio, michigan, north carolina, texas, virginia, florida, wisconsin all the biggies, it sounds like. so all the big ones. and you can see from that, there is a direct correlation, particularly with the governor s races. there are a lot of gubernatorial