Eric Holder: “There are factors that we considered.”

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

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.

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