SCOOP: Eric Holder's gerrymandering hypocrisy under fire

Eric Holder, the Democrats’ leading proponent of partisan gerrymandering, has been all over the map in the wake of Texas Republicans announcing plans to proceed with a mid-decade redistricting of the Lone Star State.

In an interview with Al Sharpton, who helped lead a pogrom in New York City in the 1990s, Holder claimed that “we've got to do things that maybe I didn't necessarily support before but that I find necessary to support now,” alluding to his support for Democrats potentially drawing Republicans out of office in states like California and New York.

Holder’s implication that he opposes partisan gerrymandering doesn’t pass muster with many; one veteran of California politics told the Washington Reporter that “Eric Holder saying he’s against gerrymandering is like Jeffrey Epstein saying your girlfriend is too young for you.”

Following his years serving as President Barack Obama’s “wingman,” Holder took the reins of the National Democratic Redistricting Commission (NDRC) — an organization whose partners are heavily funded by a foreign billionaire, Hansjörg Wyss.

While Holder previously compared foreign interference in American elections to Pearl Harbor, Wyss has given millions of dollars to NDRC’s aligned group, the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF).

As the leader of NDRC, Holder has worked to have it both ways on gerrymandering, claiming to support so-called independent redistricting commissions when those results would likely favor Democrats, and backing partisan gerrymandering when Democrats can draw Republicans out of office.

Mason Di Palma, the communications director of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), told the Reporter that “Eric Holder has revealed what Republicans have known for a long time: he is a hypocrite who was never genuinely in favor of fairness or independent redistricting commissions.”

As recently as last year, Holder told NPR that “we also stand very strongly for the creation of these independent commissions to draw the lines, as opposed to having partisan legislatures do the redistricting process. When you see the existence of these independent commissions, you see the best results.”