Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandering “tears at the fabric of our democracy.”
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that judges do not have the authority to intervene in cases of partisan gerrymandering political districts.
“We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority decision, according to The New York Times.
"With partisan gerrymandering decision (plus Citizens United/Shelby) Roberts Court has entered a new political Lochner era," Holder, the chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, tweeted on Thursday.
"This decision tears at the fabric of our democracy and puts the interests of the established few above the many. History will not be kind in its assessment,” he added.
"Let me be very clear. In spite of the troubling Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling, we continue to fight. We still have both more tools and the strong will to bring fairness to our democracy. We need concerned citizens to join us. Nothing worth having comes easy. We can do this," Holder tweeted.
Roberts wrote that “Excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust. The districting plans at issue here are highly partisan, by any measure. The question is whether the courts below appropriately exercised judicial power when they found them unconstitutional as well.”
“Federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties, with no plausible grant of authority in the Constitution and no legal standards to limit and direct their decisions,” he wrote.
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