Eric Holder: “I will take my obligation seriously under those regulations and look at the evidence that the States provide.”

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.

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

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,’’

North Carolina is a pretty much a 50/50 state.