Eric Holder: “the Department of Justice first and foremost represents the people of the United States. Not any one President, not any…”

And unless we have the kind of courage that Alice Paul, Thomas Dorr exhibited in the past, in addition to the other people we mentioned in the book, we could lose our democracy.

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.

My concern is that they`re going to be ideological. My hope is that they will follow precedent, follow the facts, apply the law in the neutral way that they should.

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.