Obama to join redistricting reform group after leaving White House

President Obama.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder is set to head up a new Democratic group focusing on redistricting reform — and President Obama will likely join his former administration colleague when he leaves office next January.

Called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the group "will coordinate campaign strategy, direct fundraising, organize ballot initiatives, and put together legal challenges to state redistricting maps," Politico reports, in an effort to fight the gerrymandering that has traditionally benefited the Republican Party in state elections. The group originally wanted to get to work for the 2016 elections, but instead is now setting its sights on concrete efforts during the 2018 midterms.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.