Eric H. Holder's comments on Tennessee's latest redistricting map
"Tennessee Republicans shamelessly and happily racing to diminish the voting power of Black citizens shows just how detrimental the Roberts Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act is to our democracy. The Court has put in place a nefarious permission structure. This move by Tennessee will be the first of many immoral, flagrant racial gerrymanders that we will see from Republican-led states unless and until we can enact federal legislation to protect the rights of voters and to reform an out-of-control and unprincipled Supreme Court.
Make no mistake, this fight will be hard, it will be long, and there will be setbacks as well as many victories. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ But the arc does not bend on its own. It’s now on us, again, to do the necessary work to pull that arc towards justice—together."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/07/donald-trump-republicans-gop-electoral-map-redistricting-midterms-lula-executive-orders-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69fcfa728f08beea73b76e8a#block-69fcfa728f08beea73b76e8a
[Reported by Shrai Popat, The Guardian, May 7, 2026]
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