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Is all about. >> there -- there used to be legal challenges mounted to redistricting. what do you see that's -- that's left by way of possible-courtroom remedies to really horrible versions of gerrymandering? >> well, we have got a couple of venues, a couple of ways in which we can challenge gerrymandering. if there are racial gerrymanders, we can still bring cases in the federal courts and we have done so and been successful there, in virginia, for instance. if there -- if there partisan gerrymanders, you can bring cases in the state courts. we did that successfully in pennsylvania, as well a...

Democratic re-districting committee back in 2017, we have broken trifecta control of the governorship, as well as the two houses and state legislature in nine states. we have put in place independent commissions. we have governors in states who will be able to veto gerrymandered re-districting that republican legislatures, undoubtedly, are going to do. so the fight is, still, on. and that's why re-districting u is so important because we want to try to get the people of this country involved in this fight. promote transparency. involvement of the people in this country. and to make sure that t...

Prevail over cynicism. we must be ready to get involved in the re-districting process in our states, if we can achieve fair maps, the bounds of what is possible will fundamentally change. and leading off our discussion, tonight, is eric holder. former-u.s. attorney general in the obama administration. he is now the chair of the national democratic re-districting committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight, general holder. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to get to this re-districting university. and what is possible? because we just heard, you know, congressma...

For maintaining power in congress. here is texas republican congressman ronny jackson describing the republican strategy for next year's congressional elections. >> we have everything working in our favor right now. we have re-districting coming up and the republicans control most of that process in most the states around the country. that, alone, should get us the majority back. >> former-attorney general eric holder is the chair of the national democratic re-districting committee, which has launched a new program called re-districting university by its affiliate organization, all on the line...

States around the country would, then, be, somehow, shamed into doing something, i guess, less bad than what they were going to do. but they don't have that capacity, anymore, do they? to be shamed about what they're doing? >> no, they're not going to be shamed. but if we expose what they do, we can galvanize the people of this country to throw 'em out of office. by exposing what they do. by making people aware of how they are trying to pervert our democracy. how they are attacking our democracy. that will mobilize the people of -- of this country to participate in elections. not only at the f...