Eric Holder: “So, I hope the Congress will rethink this and we can, in bipartisan fashion, give some relief to sequestration.”

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

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Yes, I think it is really just a delay and distract move as was indicated. It's not a particularly substantive appeal.

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.