Eric Holder: “I think the people at OPR have done a good job, and there are recommendations with regard to sanctions that ought to be…”

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.

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,’’

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.

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.