Eric Holder: “I frequently hear the notion that these terrorists are getting rights that the average American would not get.”

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.

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.

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.