Eric Holder

Yes. I certainly think that, you know, everybody who was involved in that matter, and, I mean, you just -- you can`t look at it. You can`t cabin (ph). You just think that January 6th is the only thing we need to be looking at. We have to…

Power cedes nothing without a demand. And we too often underestimate the power that we have as regular American citizens by marching, by protesting, by raising our voices.

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.

If we fight for fairness, if we make sure that we get the number of seats that we are entitled to, both in the state legislature as well as in the House of Representatives on the basis of fair criteria, Democrats and progressives will do…

Without that protection, I really fear what you’re going to see happen in states like Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, and Florida in particular, where you got Republican control of both the governorship as well as the state legislature.

At the end of the day, it’s going to come down to I think a binary choice between passing this pro-democracy bill and defending an arcane Senate procedure that in the past has been used to frustrate civil rights legislation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

What I oppose is the overly prescriptive way in which States, generally Republican States, have indicated that which is acceptable to prove that you are who you claim to be when you want to vote.

They made a priority the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

The biggest change was by, in essence, taking away the preclearance ability.

A State voting law has a discriminatory, regressive effect if the law disproportionately and materially burdens minority voters when it is measured against preexisting State law.

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

I do support donor disclosure.

Gerrymandering is not something that is only done by Republicans. It has been done by Democrats.

I am against partisan and racial gerrymandering done by any party in any place.

I have stood against Democrats who have engaged in that process, whether it was in the case, the redistricting case, the Rucho case, standing against what happened in Maryland.