Eric Holder: “Power cedes nothing without a demand. And we too often underestimate the power that we have as regular American citizens…”

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.

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,’’

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.

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