Former Attorney General Eric Holder Eric Himpton HolderThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy Biden campaign forming 'special litigation' team ahead of possible voting battle Pompeo, Engel poised for battle in contempt proceedings MORE slammed the vice chairman of President Trump's voter fraud commission on Monday.

In an address to the NAACP, Holder, who held the top Justice Department position in the Obama administration, called Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach a "fact-challenged zealot" and accused him of being "up to no good."

“This commission, led by a fact-challenged zealot, will come up with bogus reasons why further restrictions should be placed on the right to vote,” Holder said on Monday. “This commission is up to no good.”

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Speaking at the group's annual convention in Baltimore, Holder accused Republican supporters of voter ID laws of trying to suppress the votes of African-Americans and other minorities.

“Too many in this country are trying to make it too hard, to make it too difficult for the people,” Holder said. “Let me be frank. Voter fraud did not become an issue in North Carolina, as in other places, until people of color started to cast ballots in record numbers.”

Trump set up the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in May with an executive order, stating that the purpose of the group is to “promote fair and honest federal elections.”

Both Kobach and Trump have claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud occurred during the 2016 election. Trump has gone as far to claim illegal ballots cost him the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE.

In January, Kobach told Fox Business that “it will be impossible to ever know what the exact number is of non-citizens voting. I think it probably was [millions]."



"If you take the whole country, I think it is probably in excess of a million, if you take the entire country for sure," Kobach said.

Holder called on "people of good faith" to stand up against the Trump administration and ignore "alternative facts," a reference to another top Trump aide, counselor Kellyanne Conway.

“People of good faith, people grounded in facts — not alternative facts, which need to be called what they are: lies ... people of good faith really have to ask, ‘Where is the problem?’” Holder said Monday.

“Speak out, don’t be afraid, don’t worry about being the subject of a tweet,” Holder added.

“We must use our best efforts to ensure that this most essential of American rights, the right to vote, is protected for this and protected for future generations.”

Holder has been a top critic of the Trump administration and especially his successor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE.

In May, Holder called Sessions "dumb on crime" after Sessions reversed Obama-era policies aimed at easing mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. And in April, he ripped the White House for "chaos" and "lack of accomplishment" in Trump's first 100 days in office.

“You have seen in the chaos, and lack of accomplishment in these 100 days, things that give me great pause, and I think it's the basis for a renaissance of the Democratic Party,” Holder said in April.