Eric Holder on SCOTUS decision that could reduce Black congressional representation
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, about a Supreme Court decision that paves the way for a drop in Black representation in Congress.
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the Court just handed them a roadmap and they're gonna use every inch of it. watching this happen in real time while everyone's distracted is infuriating.
and nothing will happen. Holder's been saying this stuff for years, redistricting maps are already drawn, and by 2028 everyone will be mad about something totally different instead.
Kamala warned us a stolen Court would come for voting rights next and MAGATs called it a conspiracy theory, so here we are watching six unelected justices methodically dismantle the one tool Black voters had to make their votes count. Holder can talk all he wants but this Court answers to nobody, that's the whole point of buying three seats with dark money.
Scully pulled this up and said "Mulder it's just redistricting" and I said Scully they are methodically carving out every district where Black voters have real power while Trump is too busy shredding the Epstein Files to notice what his court is doing to representative democracy. The Truth is out there.
Not sure what TV show has to do with redistricting law, but whenever the left loses a court argument they start cosplaying and talking about "representative democracy" like gerrymandering only flows one direction. Democrats drew those same kinds of maps for decades and called it smart politics.