Eric Holder

What worries me about this moment now is that this administration, aided by this Supreme Court, is bound and determined to take us back to a time that I thought, that we all thought, that might have been behind us,’’

In this moment, steps must be taken to respond to the authoritarian measures being considered in certain states and now so brazenly taken in Texas.

I fear is that they will somehow overturn a vast number of cases that have found a way in which to say that affirmative action is appropriate.

It is going to have an impact in making sure that the election in 2024 will have the state legislature appropriately circumscribed with a decision going the other way, I'd be very concerned that state legislators might use the power that…

The fact that it was included in the indictment that was returned in Florida is an indication I think that the Justice Department is confident that it is going to be able to prove that in fact, those documents that he had in his hands were…

North Carolina is a pretty much a 50/50 state.

The Independent State Legislature Doctrine says that Courts should not have any role in the redistricting determination. It's an affront to our notion of checks and balances.

It's a pretty breathtaking thing what Republicans are trying to do in North Carolina.

If stock trades are made close in time to something a negative happening to the bank that immediately raises suspicions.

It's a question of whether or not it was, you know, malfeasance as opposed to negligence.

This is a slam dunk. I mean, this is not -- this should not be a difficult case to resolve. This is a classic Section 2 violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

This is a nationwide fight. And so, between now and then, I think Americans all around the country have to really get out there and vote like they have never voted before.

This is a classic Section 2 violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. The political power of African- Americans in Alabama was diluted, unconstitutionally, statutorily, inappropriately…

My concern is that they`re going to be ideological. My hope is that they will follow precedent, follow the facts, apply the law in the neutral way that they should.

Who controls these state legislatures is really, really important.

The cornerstone of American civil rights law. I am deeply disappointed, deeply disappointed with the court`s decision.

This is about a racial gerrymandering case in Alabama that violates Section II of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Yes, I think it is really just a delay and distract move as was indicated. It's not a particularly substantive appeal.

As the so- called war on drugs enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it and the approaches that comprise it have been truly effective. And with an outsized unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that…

Being smart on crime

I think that what is going to happen here is that more evidence is going to be elicited. You will see people start to cut deals. My guess is that by the end of this process, you`re going to see the indictments and high level people of the…

I think that what`s going to happen here is that more evidence is going to be elicited, you will see people start to cut deals. My guess is that by the end of this process, you`re going to see indictments involving high-level people in the…

My guess is that by the end of this process, you're going to see indictments involving high-level people in the White House. You're going to see indictments against people outside the White House who are advising them with regard to the…

When we started the Democratic -- National Democratic Redistricting Committee back in January of 2017, and I was talking about the importance of gerrymandering. You can see people’s eyes glaze over and figuring out, what is this all about…