Eric Holder: “America's justice system has always rested on its ability to deliver impartial results and precisely these types of…”

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.

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.

Not on my watch would we see a retrenchment, to go back to the America that existed before the great work that Ambassador Young and all those great heroes, heroines did before me,’’

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.