Eric Holder

Those numbers should be used in a way that comes up with representative democracy in both our state legislatures as well as the United States House of Representatives.

The best way to get all of this stuff is to pass the legislation that the House has already passed and is now pending in the Senate.

I am concerned, however, that if we do not pass the For the People Act and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, that we can't get to a point where they will put measures in place that will be irreversible, and that could have…

I do feel a certain sense of cautious optimism that we can have a carve-out of the filibuster to allow the passage of this very important bill.

No, I don`t think so. I mean, I`ve known Merrick for, you know, maybe 20, 30, 20, 25 years at this point. I think he is a person that is going to do things by the book. And I think he understands the enormity of what happened and the…

The For the People Act is really a comprehensive pro-democracy bill. It deals with dark money. It deals with voter protection, and it also deals with ending partisan gerrymandering.

I think we need to be very worried about this court. They have demonstrated an ideological distaste for protecting the right to vote.

I don`t think that, you know, when it comes to election reform that we`re going to find a friend or friends on United State`s Supreme Court. They are ideologically against voter protection.

No, obviously, we should not be OK with that. That`s something that we have been fighting at the NDRC since we began back in January of 2017.

If the process is fair -- if the process is fair -- Democrats will do just fine. In fact, Democrats will, I think, in fact, prevail.

You know, fascism and authoritarian regimes rose, not because they were strong but, because democracies were weak, and because democracies were not adequately protected, and is this the time for us to protect our democracy.

This is a time to stand up for democracy. This is a time to face reality. This is a time for action.

The fight is, still, on. And that’s why re-districting u is so important because we want to try to get the people of this country involved in this fight, promote transparency, involvement of the people in this country.

I am very concerned about what this will mean. We have seen what State legislatures have done since the Shelby County decision.

I think we certainly have to respond to the findings of the Shelby County decision, holding hearings like this, creating a record that shows the impact of the Shelby decision--1,700 polling place closures, unnecessary voting purges--to…

I stand for the disclosure obligations that are contained in the bills that are being considered before Congress.

Eight years ago tomorrow in the Shelby County decision, a very divided Supreme Court gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Let me just say that that is a mischaracterization of the intent of that filing.

Well, I think that what we would have to do is do what the Congress did back in 1965, which is to conduct hearings, as you are doing now, come up with ways in which you look at States that have----

The beauty of preclearance was that you stopped negative action before it began.

The Court in the Shelby decision actually invited congressional action, and I think the efforts that are being led by Chairman Butterfield here are consistent with what the Shelby County decision mandated.

If you expand the number of things that somebody can use to prove they are who they claim to be, I could support voter ID.

The reauthorization of the act was supported almost unanimously by Republicans and Democrats in the House as well as in the Senate.

I do support donor disclosure.

I am asking for nothing more radical than that which is at the heart of the American experiment, the idea at the core of American democracy, free and fair elections where the people--all the people--are heard, and all of the people are…