Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Alabama congressional candidate Shomari Figures said they hope battles over redistricting in Alabama will be held off until after the 2030 Census.
Congressional candidate Shomari Figures answers questions from the media with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joining him during a press conference on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, at the Figures campaign headquarters in Mobile, Ala.Alabama’s newly drawn congressional district map created a new district that gives the Democratic Party a strong chance of picking up a seat held by Republicans for the past 14 years.
“The Supreme Court, in all the findings that it has made, I think after it goes through the next legal proceedings, we should end up in the same place,” Holder said during a news conference Monday ahead of campaigning with Figures less than eight days before the election. “Government officials in Alabama should accept that, and I hope they would.”
Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, said the state’s continued fight against the map – approved by a federal judge last fall, following the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling – is similar to Alabama’s resistance to voting rights nearly 60 years ago. “To me the needs of the people of this district, Shomari seems to be the clear choice as opposed his opponent,” Holder said, referring to issues such as rural health care and economic opportunity. “ seems to be cut from the same cloth that I see too much of in the House in Washington D.C. from the Republican caucus.
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