ICYMI: NDRC Charts Path Forward to Defeat Trump’s National Gerrymandering Crisis

Washington, D.C. — As reported today in POLITICO’s Playbook, John Bisognano, the President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), issued a memo laying out the path to ultimately achieve national democracy reforms and put an end to Trump’s national gerrymandering crisis. The memo builds on Attorney General Eric Holder’s New York Times essay, which outlined a solution to ending the gerrymandering crisis by enacting federal legislation to protect voting rights, guard against gerrymandering, and reform the rogue Supreme Court.

The memo highlights a multi-year, multi-faceted strategy that encompasses more than 25 states and several hundred districts where Democrats must defend against Republican gerrymandering, counter with responsive redistricting, and build power at the ballot box to help stop Republicans from enacting more gerrymanders.

“Defeating this current wave of racial and partisan gerrymandering requires abandoning outdated playbooks,” Bisognano wrote in the memo. “By working with the American public to level the playing field, defending our judicial and executive firewalls in battlegrounds, and refusing to relinquish our most precious and fundamental right to vote in free and fair elections, we can keep pushing to fulfill the founding promise of a representative democracy for all Americans. The deliberate, Trump-driven attempt to silence perceived dissension by silencing Black and Latino voters will be met with uncompromising resistance and unprecedented mobilization.”

Since the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the NDRC, under Attorney General Holder’s leadership, has played a central role in charting the path forward to ultimately achieve a representative democracy. Attorney General Holder held an organizing call with Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-7) to rally grassroots supporters for the fight ahead. He also joined NPR’s Morning Edition and The Briefing with Jen Psaki to sound the alarm about the wave of Southern states rushing to diminish the voting power of Black voters and to highlight the plan for the fight ahead. More recently, NDRC President John Bisognano hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit, taking questions from Reddit users about the ongoing mid-decade gerrymandering crisis and the work NDRC is doing to put a stop to it.

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