Former Attorney General Eric Holder accused Republicans of “performance mourning” the loss of Georgia Rep. John Lewis because they do not support his election legislation.

Holder, a Democrat, wrote an opinion piece published Monday by the Washington Post in which he highlighted the many Republicans in Congress who had expressed their grief over Lewis’s death last week. Holder claimed that the GOP lawmakers were not sincere in their mourning because they were “smothering his life’s goal” by blocking H.R.4, a bill that strengthens the Voting Rights Act of 1965.