Eric Holder To Step Down

Ava · Sep 25, 2014

Katzndogz said:
He could be replaced by someone even worse. It's too soon to cheer that the most hated man in America will be gone. Especially if the reason he is leaving is to make a challenge to Hillary Clinton for president.

Sensible points, as usual. :thup:

Desperado · Sep 25, 2014

Its about time that racist SOB left.
What a trail of garbage he left in his wake too.

bornright · Sep 25, 2014

Katzndogz said:
He could be replaced by someone even worse. It's too soon to cheer that the most hated man in America will be gone. Especially if the reason he is leaving is to make a challenge to Hillary Clinton for president.

I have really give it some thought and I can not think of anyone right off hand that would be worse.

namvet · Sep 25, 2014

good riddance to

Rocko · Sep 25, 2014

Probably wants to avoid the pressure on him to prosecute Darren Wilson. In any case, good riddance!

depotoo · Sep 25, 2014

JWBooth said:
depotoo said:

Any guesses who might replace him?

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Would it really matter?

Surely he won't pick someone so blatantly racist this time, though then again.

jknowgood · Sep 25, 2014

Good riddance to the racist negro!

Jackson · Sep 25, 2014

Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General

Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system and five and a half years of fights with Republicans in Congress.

Two sources familiar with the decision tell NPR that Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed, a process that could run through 2014 and even into next year. A former U.S. government official says Holder has been increasingly "adamant" about his desire to leave soon for fear he otherwise could be locked in to stay for much of the rest of President Obama's second term.

Holder already is one of the longest serving members of the Obama cabinet and ranks as the fourth longest tenured AG in history. Hundreds of employees waited in lines, stacked three rows deep, for his return in early February 2009 to the Justice Department, where he previously worked as a young corruption prosecutor and as deputy attorney general — the second in command — during the Clinton administration.

But some of that early glow faded in part due to the politicized nature of the job and in part because of Holder's own rhetoric, such as a 2009 Black History Month speech where he said the country was "a nation of cowards" when it comes to discussions about racial tension.

Five years later, violence erupted between police and protesters in Ferguson, Mo., after a white policeman killed an unarmed black 18 year old. And this time, the White House dispatched Holder to speak his piece, in effect jump starting that conversation, and helping to settle nerves in the frayed community.

Another huge controversy — over his decision to try the 9-11 plotters in a New York courthouse in the shadow of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center — prompted venomous reaction from lawmakers, New York City officials and some victim families.

Under pressure that threatened his job and his legacy, the attorney general reversed his decision and instead sent the cases to military court — where they continue to languish even as Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law and other terrorism defendants are serving life sentences in maximum security prisons on American soil.

Things hit a crisis point when the GOP-led House voted him in contempt for refusing to hand over documents about a gun trafficking scandal known as Fast and Furious. That represented the first time an attorney general had ever been rebuked that way but still Holder held onto his job.

The sources say a leading candidate for that job is Solicitor General Don Verrilli, the administration's top representative to the Supreme Court and a lawyer whose judgment and discretion are prized in both DOJ and the White House.

Even though the attorney general has his eyes on the door, the two sources say several more policy and enforcement initiatives are underway and could be announced soon.

Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General The Two-Way NPR

namvet · Sep 25, 2014

somethings up. why now??

Jackson · Sep 25, 2014

jknowgood said:
Good riddance to the racist negro!

And he was the racist supreme!

Ava · Sep 25, 2014

shart_attack said:
Uh oh.

Bet Al Sharpton's gonna replace him.

AS isn't an attorney. But IS the presidents go to guy as AS is a social and political activist and radical.

depotoo · Sep 25, 2014

depotoo said:
JWBooth said:

depotoo said:

Any guesses who might replace him?

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Would it really matter?

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Surely he won't pick someone so blatantly racist this time, though then again.

I need to add - or politically driven.