Oh, darn. He's being forced to abide by the law. And by a judge of his own choosing, of all things.
Judge orders Walker to hold special elections
Thanks be to Eric Holder, champion of voting rights! Working in tandem with Barack Obama, because fuck if we have all Not had ENOUGH of these bullshit reindeer games.
Eric Holder to Lead Democrats’ Attack on Republican Gerrymandering
Judge orders Walker to hold special elections
“Despite liberal rhetoric, [Wisconsin] law does not allow me to call a special election now until after 4/3/2018,” Walker tweeted earlier this month. “The state Legislature is done by then & nominations papers for fall elections are out on 4/15/2018. Ex of liberal misinformation campaign.”
Reynolds, who was appointed by Walker, rejected that argument. State law requires the governor to call an election to fill a vacancy that occurs before the second Tuesday in May of an election year.
“This is an important victory for the impacted citizens of Wisconsin who have gone without representation because of Governor Walker’s refusal to call special elections,” Holder said in a statement Thursday. “One of our most basic rights as American citizens is that we get to vote and have representation in our legislatures. Governor Walker’s actions have undermined that right and it never should have taken legal action to force him to do his job.”
Thanks be to Eric Holder, champion of voting rights! Working in tandem with Barack Obama, because fuck if we have all Not had ENOUGH of these bullshit reindeer games.
Eric Holder to Lead Democrats’ Attack on Republican Gerrymandering
Thwarted for much of his term by a confrontational Republican Congress, and criticized by his fellow Democrats for not devoting sufficient attention to their down-ballot candidates, Mr. Obama has decided to make the byzantine process of legislative redistricting a central political priority in his first years after the presidency.
Emerging as Mr. Obama’s chief collaborator and proxy is Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general of the United States and a personal friend of the president. He has signed on to lead the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a newly formed political group aimed at untangling the creatively drawn districts that have helped cement the Republican Party in power in Washington and many state capitals.
In an interview this week at Covington & Burling, the Washington law firm where he is now in private practice, Mr. Holder, 65, said that he and Mr. Obama believe Republicans have undermined the political system by creating a patchwork of legislative maps — at both the state and federal levels — that are designed to stifle the will of voters.