Eric Holder: “I think in those people we have people who have shown independence, an ability to be thorough, and who have the guts to…”

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.

The Republicans right now just ain`t that much into democracy.

As the so- called war on drugs enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it and the approaches that comprise it have been truly effective. And with an outsized unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that…

It's a question of whether or not it was, you know, malfeasance as opposed to negligence.