Eric Holder: “As I have indicated, it is my intention, after the processes are gone through at the Department, to seek the death…”

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.

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,’’

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,’’

In this moment, steps must be taken to respond to the authoritarian measures being considered in certain states and now so brazenly taken in Texas.