Newsmax reports:

Holder was greeted by around 100 protesters when he turned up at the symbolically important Lyndon Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which allows the federal government to interfere in state voting laws if they would disproportionately deter minority groups from voting.

The conservative protesters, who had traveled from all over Texas, waved signs calling for Holder’s impeachment or indictment. They claimed there is no need for government interference on voting. One of them, former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams told Fox News, “He’s announcing war on Texas tonight.”

The attorney general said he was concerned about measures that tended “to restrict in ways that are subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, the ability of the American people to cast their ballots.” He said protecting access to the voting process “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative.”

And in a thinly veiled attack on Republicans, Holder said he was calling on political parties “to resist the temptation to suppress certain votes in the hope of attaining electoral success and, instead, achieve success by appealing to more voters.”

and this:

Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation told the Post that Holder’s stance is based on “ideology and politics,” saying that courts have found voter ID laws in both Georgia and Indiana to be nondiscriminatory.

“Georgia’s law has been in place for five years,” added von Spakovsky, a Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Not only did the turnout for African Americans not go down, it went up.”