Eric Holder: “Republicans just ink that into democracy. That’s just the reality.”

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 pretty breathtaking thing what Republicans are trying to do in North Carolina.

What worries me about this moment now is that this administration, aided by this Supreme Court, is bound and determined to take us back to a time that I thought, that we all thought, that might have been behind us,’’

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.