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Eric Holder, who served as U.S. attorney general under President Barack Obama and who is taking a lead role in a national Democratic redistricting effort, will headline the state Democratic partys Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in June.

Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, will keynote the event on June 17 at the Richmond Marriott, days after Democrats and Republicans pick their candidates for statewide office in a June 13 primary.

Holder has called the Virginia governors race an important early focus for the group. The governor who is elected in November will preside as state lawmakers redraw legislative and congressional boundaries after the 2020 census.

This Novembers elections in Virginia are a top priority for Democrats and give us the opportunity to undo Republican gerrymandering and have a legislature and Congress that truly represent the views of the people, Holder said in a statement provided by the Democratic Party of Virginia.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe is helping to spearhead fundraising for the Democrats national effort to make gains through redrawn boundaries after the census.

David DOnofrio, a spokesman for the Republican Party of Virginia, said in a statement: Democrats are simply trying to accomplish in courts what they cant do at the ballot box.

They simply cant fathom why they cant win legislative elections in Virginia. It cant be voters rejecting their far-left policies, so they have to find another excuse. We hope someone will tell former Attorney General Holder that Democrats drew their own lines in the Virginia Senate, then-Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on the lines, as did Rep. Robert C. Bobby Scott, D-3rd and the Legislative Black Caucus, and they still wound up out of power.

Virginias congressional and legislative boundaries have been the subject of court action in recent months.

Democrats picked up a congressional seat in the 4th District after a three-judge panel redrew the states U.S. House boundaries after finding that legislators packed too many African-Americans into Scotts 3rd District.

In a second federal case over Virginia redistricting, the U.S. Supreme Court has instructed a lower court to re-examine whether the Virginia General Assembly unconstitutionally stuffed African-American voters into certain House of Delegates districts, opening the door to a new political map.

In a third case, a Richmond Circuit Court judge will soon rule in a challenge to 11 Virginia legislative districts. The redistricting group OneVirginia2021 charges that those districts violate requirements in the Virginia Constitution that districts be compact.

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