Groups Plan Legal Action Against Lame Duck Bills
Monday, December 17th, 2018 -- 9:44 AM
(AP) -A group run by former Democratic U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says it plans legal action to block a limitation on early voting in Wisconsin signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker.The Republican governor signed it Friday after the Legislature passed it in a lame-duck session last week. Early voting would be limited to no more than two weeks before an election under the bill Walker signed. Holder says in a statement that's a "shameful attack on our democracy."
Holder's group the National Redistricting Foundation will pursue legal action along with the Wisconsin-based liberal group One Wisconsin Now. The groups successfully sued in federal court in 2016 to overturn similar early voting and other restrictions enacted by Walker.
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