Holder is resigning

[SuperiorDG]

Official: Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning

By The Associated Press Published: September 25, 2014, 10:55 am Updated: September 25, 2014, 10:55 am

http://lintvwavy.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/police-shooting-justi_wert.jpg?w=650 Attorney General Eric Holder, center, takes questions from a member of the media during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, to announce the Justice Department's civil rights division will launch a broad civil rights investigation in the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department. Joining Holder are Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Molly Moran, left, and Ronald Davis, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) WASHINGTON (AP) — White House official says Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning.
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http://wavy.com/2014/09/25/official-attorney-general-eric-holder-is-resigning/

[Robb]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/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 5 1/2 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 that 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 Sept. 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 victims' 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.

Holder most wants to be remembered for his record on civil rights: refusing to defend a law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman; suing North Carolina and Texas over voting restrictions that disproportionately affect minorities and the elderly; launching 20 investigations of abuses by local police departments; and using his bully pulpit to lobby Congress to reduce prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Many of those sentences disproportionately hurt minority communities.

And then there's his relationship with Congress. From the day Holder's nomination was announced, Republicans led by Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., signaled that he would be a political lightning rod.

The attorney general's portfolio, which spans sensitive law enforcement cases and hot-button social issues including marijuana and gay marriage, didn't help. But even longtime aides say Holder didn't do enough to help himself by shrugging off preparations and moot sessions before congressional appearances and speaking off the cuff — and obliquely.

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 on to his job.

In the end, the decision to leave was Holder's alone — the two sources tell NPR that the White House would have been happy to have him stay a full eight years and to avoid what could be a contentious nomination fight for his successor. Holder and Obama discussed his departure several times and finalized things in a long meeting over Labor Day weekend at the White House.

The attorney general told DOJ staff the news this morning and has called civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former AG Robert F. Kennedy.

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.

Friends and former colleagues say Holder has made no decisions about his next professional perch, but they say it would be no surprise if he returned to the law firm Covington & Burling, where he spent years representing corporate clients.

The friends say Holder is also considering donating his papers to a university in Washington, D.C., or his native New York, where he could establish a civil rights center to work more on law enforcement interactions with communities of color and host public forums on those issues.

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.

For instance, Holder sent a memo to U.S. attorneys Wednesday urging them not to use sentencing enhancements known as "851" tools to gain leverage in plea negotiations with defendants — in essence, threatening defendants into avoiding trial with huge amounts of prison time. The practice has been criticized by U.S. District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn and other jurists.

Holder is also expected to notify federal prosecutors in coming days that the Justice Department will no longer require defendants who plead guilty to waive their rights to appeal based on ineffective lawyering. Many U.S. attorneys now forgo that practice, but not all.

Long-awaited racial profiling guidelines for federal agents will be released soon, too. Those guidelines will make clear that sexual orientation, ethnicity and religion are not legitimate bases for law enforcement suspicion, but controversial mapping of certain communities — including Muslim Americans — would still be allowed for national security investigations, one of the sources said.

[Great-Kazoo]

His replacement has been there a long time. Same political bent. F&F already fallen by the wayside, will become like benghazi, Something to mock the R's over, nothing more.


























Meet the new Boss, Same as the Old Boss

[clublights]

Seeing as all the shit he has pulled he should be leaving office in cuffs...



Tin foil cap comment....


So what did Obama ask him to do he was uncomfortable with?
Now THAT is a scary thought.....

[Great-Kazoo]

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/138933-Holder-is-resigning

[Zundfolge]

Damn ... I really wanted to see him frog marched out of office. Now all his crimes will be swept under the rug :(

[sniper7]

I wouldn't be surprised to see this asshole fighting alongside ISIS in a few months. Worthless POS

[Irving]

Wonder what/where he plans to F up next?

[Aloha_Shooter]

The day he is Mr. Holder and subject to criminal penalties for how he's abused his office, I'll be playing this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iseJJ5ogA&hl=en

[Zundfolge]

I wouldn't be surprised to see this asshole fighting alongside ISIS in a few months. Worthless POS

Nope ... he's too cowardly to fight.

I suspect we'll be seeing a SCOTUS justice retiring soon (Ginsburg maybe?) and Holder will be Obozo's choice for their replacement.

[Irving]

Jesus that would be a nightmare.

[Zundfolge]

Jesus that would be a nightmare.

As long as Harry Ried doesn't end the filibuster for SCOTUS candidates we'll be fine ... if he does end it its time for war.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Don't worry. I don't think it will get worse. This is where it gets better.

[Hummer]

I'll bet the timing has a lot to do with this, a District Court has ordered the Justice Dept. to produce the Fast and Furious documents by October 22:

Judge Denies DOJ Request to Delay Release of Fast and Furious Document List (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/09/25/judge-denies-doj-request-to-delay-release-of-fast-and-furious-document-list-n1896621)



That's before the election, btw.

[CO Hugh]

Someone must have found him with a live boy or dead woman!

[rbeau30]

50031

[Dave]

Don't worry. I don't think it will get worse. This is where it gets better.
Consider who is giving advice on who should be picked next.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/al-sharpton-says-hes-helping-172500559.html

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I wouldn't be surprised to see this asshole fighting alongside ISIS in a few months. Worthless POS


Nope ... he's too cowardly to fight.


I just can't see him getting his hands dirty.
The dirt would cake with the blood all over them anyway.

[trlcavscout]

He can't run for office if he is stuck in that shitty job, seems like a Hillary move

[02ducky]

Well... bye! Dont let the door hit you on the way out asshole.

[Aloha_Shooter]

All the more reason to make sure the Dems lose control of the Senate and the confirmation process for his replacement.

[jhood001]

Bye, bitch!

[Zundfolge]

Don't worry. I don't think it will get worse. This is where it gets better.

I wish I could share in your optimism (or naivete :p )

[BushMasterBoy]

Be nice, his wife is a gynecologist!

[Duman]

Nope ... he's too cowardly to fight.

I suspect we'll be seeing a SCOTUS justice retiring soon (Ginsburg maybe?) and Holder will be Obozo's choice for their replacement.


Sometimes I think I have dyslexia....On my first scan I read 'SCOTUS' as 'SCROTUM'.

[flogger]

I wonder if Obama thought about the way the Soviets used to do it, Holder just disappears and they airbrush (or digitally delete) his image from any existing images or video? Nah!
50041

[clublights]

I wonder if Obama thought about the way the Soviets used to do it, Holder just disappears and they airbrush (or digitally delete) his image from any existing images or video? Nah!
50041

Naw he just wants to do that with citizens that vote against him .

[hollohas]

I'll bet the timing has a lot to do with this, a District Court has ordered the Justice Dept. to produce the Fast and Furious documents by October 22:

Judge Denies DOJ Request to Delay Release of Fast and Furious Document List (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/09/25/judge-denies-doj-request-to-delay-release-of-fast-and-furious-document-list-n1896621)



That's before the election, btw.
Eh, court orders are meaningless to them anyway. They've ignored countless orders to produce documents. They'll just lose the hard drives...oops.

[XJ]

For all his hard work and dedication, I am willing to contribute towards an all-expenses paid vacation to Mexico [Wink]

[centrarchidae]

I think he just wants out while Senator Reid can still control the confirmation process for his successor. If the democrats lose the Senate, it's entirely possible that there won't be a successor confirmed until 2017. Unlikely, but possible.

ETA: I think the FnF ruling is also a big part of the timing. Like maybe half and half. But Holder has been whining about wanting to quit for a while.

[Ronin13]

Chuck Norris surmised today that it could be a bigger deal than we thought. Emmanuel resigned then became mayor of Chicago. Hillary resigned and is possibly going to run in 2016. Norris fears it could be that Holder resigned so Obama could appoint him to SCOTUS. I really hope this isn't so, as the implications could be extremely bad.

[CO Hugh]

Ginsberg is going to need a food tester.

[Dave]

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/04/holder-admits-hands-up-dont-shoot-claim-was-bogus/

Think he waited long enough? Or maybe he thought he was going to be gone by now....

[Aloha_Shooter]

I think he was desperately hoping he could find something to hang on Wilson. He's a stubborn racist and doesn't like having to admit he's wrong.

[sniper7]

Holder should be in prison at gitmo the rest of his life. They should make a general population area down there so he can meet his new friends.

[TFOGGER]

Shouldn't this asshole be sucking cock at some lobbyist office already?

[Great-Kazoo]

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/04/holder-admits-hands-up-dont-shoot-claim-was-bogus/

Think he waited long enough? Or maybe he thought he was going to be gone by now....

Also, Holder offered some consolation to the Democratic activists by saying abusive actions by local police helped spur subsequent riots.

Once again it's not the peoples fault they burned and looted, IT'S THE COPS. Anyone else see where this administration is leading the people his last 2 years.

[BPTactical]

Shouldn't this asshole be sucking cock at some lobbyist office already?

No. Hims alweady got a full tumtum of cum from BHO and VJ.
He should be playing center field on a live mortar range.

[davsel]

His replacement has been there a long time. Same political bent. F&F already fallen by the wayside, will become like benghazi, Something to mock the R's over, nothing more.
Meet the new Boss, Same as the Old Boss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdVA2fmUz8

[BPTactical]

Meet the new Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Sacrilege to associate EH with the Who.
Never, ever, ever desecrate the Who like that again Jim.
I will make sure you walk with a limp if you do[blaster]