MADISON, Wis. (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.
