Eric Holder actually said...

"The United States Department of Justice, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, says they are studying whether they are going to go to court and join the plaintiffs in claiming this law is unconstitutiona..."

"Yes, we are committed to that. I think that you will see that we have, in fact, been doing that."

"the support of Congress, the authorization from Congress to conduct these kinds of programs, is the way in which the executive branch should operate."

"They are not junior partners. They are equal partners in this effort."