Eric Holder: “This is a huge erosion of constitutional powers of the United States Congress.”

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,’’

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,’’