Eric Holder: “If you were to take from us the ability to use the Federal courts, you will weaken our ability to win this war.”

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.

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.

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,’’