Eric Holder Condemns SCOTUS for Blocking Lower Court’s Decision in Texas
For Immediate Release
December 4, 2025
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Eric Holder Condemns SCOTUS for Blocking Lower Court’s Decision in Texas
Washington, D.C. – Today, Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court issuing a stay on a federal court order to block Texas’s extreme mid-decade racial gerrymander from use in the 2026 midterm elections:
“It is shameful—and expected—that the Supreme Court has chosen to side with those who seek to undermine our democracy and disenfranchise voters of color. By allowing an egregiously racially gerrymandered map that brazenly dilutes the voices of communities of color to stand, the Court is not only turning a blind eye to discrimination—it is actively enabling it. The Court is also repeating the very mistakes in Milligan that delayed justice and denied fair representation to Black voters in Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia.
“Texans and voters across the country deserve fair, representative congressional maps. The Supreme Court has to be constitutionally bypassed. We will remain in this fight to ensure that voters in Texas—and across the country—have maps that reflect their communities and uphold the principle of equal representation.”
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