Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to intervene in a legal challenge filed by California Republicans that aims to block the state’s new congressional map, which voters overwhelmingly approved in last week’s general election.

“It is a shame that the hacks at the highest levels of the Justice Department are more intent on overturning the results of a free and fair election in California and eliminating the voting rights of communities of color in Texas and Louisiana than they are on releasing the information they fear in the Epstein files,” said Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General of the United States and Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). “Unlike the scheme imposed on the citizens of Texas, Californians just overwhelmingly voted in favor of the state’s new congressional map by nearly 30 percentage points at the ballot box to fight back against Trump’s gerrymandering scheme. That resounding rejection by the people clearly terrifies many Republicans and the Trump White House—it’s no wonder they are now resorting to hypocritical, desperate and truly absurd lawsuits while at the same time continuing to beg Republicans across the country to gerrymander, all in an effort to circumvent the will of the people.”

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