Eric Holder: “The beauty of preclearance was that you stopped negative action before it began.”

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…

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…

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.

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.