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Breaking News: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce that he is stepping down from the Obama administration today.
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The rats are bailing off a sinking ship.
At least he resigning he needs to be prosecuted but that won't happen in our lifetime!Quote:
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Wow! Did not see this coming!
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WHOA! Guess Who's Resigning?!?
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Whoa: ‘Department of Scandal’ getting a vacancy? Eric Holder reportedly resigning
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Report: Attorney General Eric Holder to Announce His Resignation
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce his resignation on Thursday, NPR's Morning Edition reported. This just in - Eric Holder about to announce his...
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Report: Attorney General Eric Holder to Announce His Resignation
Sep. 25, 2014 10:49am Jason Howerton
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly announce his resignation on Thursday after heading the Justice Department for six years.
Citing two sources “familiar with the situation,” NPR reports that Holder will exit the U.S. Department of Justice as soon as his replacement is confirmed, though the process could potentially drag out into 2015.
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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
A White House official says President Barack Obama will announce Holder’s departure later Thursday. Holder is the first black attorney general, and his tenure is the fourth longest on the job.
But Holder’s tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement officer is filled with controversy. Holder, 63, faced harsh criticism for his involvement in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, an operation that allowed thousands of guns to cross into Mexico only to be lost and end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Congress later voted to hold Holder in contempt over his withholding of Fast and Furious documents.
The DOJ also came under fire over its probe of classified leaks. The department investigated Fox News reporter James Rosen, naming him a “co-conspirator” for reporting based on the account of a government source.
Holder, one of the longest serving members of the Obama administration, has reportedly been “adamant” about leaving the Justice Department before the end of President Barack Obama’s second term.
More from the NPR report:
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 non-violent 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 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.
Holder reportedly informed his DOJ staff at some members of Congress on Thursday morning about his decision to resign. He has not revealed what his future plans hold.
Solicitor General Don Verrilli is believed to be a leading candidate to succeed Holder as attorney general.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BREAKING: Attorney General #EricHolder is resigning after heading the Justice Department for six years.
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Official says Holder resigning as attorney general
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning after heading the Justice Department for six years.
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Eric Holder is probably stepping down because the Obama administration and Holder know there is a chance Republicans will pick up enough seats to impeach him. Any true investigation and impeachment of Holder will lead right back to the numerous criminal acts and high crimes by Obama! Holder is the stop gap and they are throwing him out to create a burned bridge on impeachment between Holder and Obama!
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NPR: Holder to Announce Resignation Today
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BRIDGET JOHNSON
September 25, 2014 - 7:49 am
National Public Radio is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder will announce his resignation today: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.No confirmation yet from the Justice Department.
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.
President Obama is scheduled to arrive back in Washington at 3:25 p.m., leaving time in the late afternoon for any announcement to be added to the schedule.
UPDATE: The White House says the announcement will come at 4:30 p.m.
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Unfortunately Holder has populated the Department of Justice with Progressives with a political agenda. As Union protected government employees, they are impossible to dislodge.
‘Every Single One’: PJ Media’s Investigation of Justice Department Hiring Practices
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Immigration Office
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Special Litigation Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Education Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Employment Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Compliance Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Housing Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Disability Rights Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Criminal Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Appellate Section
‘Every Single One’ Fallout: Justice Dept. in Turmoil From PJMedia Series
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Better hope a SCOTUS seat doesn't suddenly become available.
The injustice of Eric Holder
Average Americans aren’t blind to the Justice Department’s politicization
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Illustration of Eric Holder and the corruption of the Justice Department by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times more >
By John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky - - Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Even we were shocked when we researched our new book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” at the extent to which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department and put the interests of left-wing ideology and his political party ahead of the fair and impartial administration of justice. However, there is no doubt that the American public has also recognized just how politically corrupt Mr. Holderis, given this month’s very embarrassing poll conducted by Hart Research for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.
The poll asked respondents their opinions about 10 different national political officials, ranging from Bill Clinton to President Obama to Eric Holder, as well as the Democratic and Republican parties. They were given choices of very positive, somewhat positive, neutral, somewhat negative, very negative and “don’t know the name.” About a third of respondents didn’t know who Mr. Holder is (37 percent). However, those Americans who knew Mr. Holder gave him the second-lowest “positive” rating of anyone or any organization on the survey at a mere 15 percent. Only Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio had a lower “positive” rating than Mr. Holder. The attorney general’s “positive” rating was less than half of the positive rating of the Republican Party and 27 points behind that of his boss, Mr. Obama, who was rated favorably by only 42 percent of respondents.
Mr. Holder’s combined “negative” rating of 32 percent was higher than that of Mr. Clinton, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sheriff Arpaio and Sen. Rand Paul. In fact, the poll balanced the total positive feelings survey participants had against the total negative feelings to figure out what the participants as a whole thought of each of the politicians in the poll. Mr. Holder, at 17 points, had the highest negative gap of any individual in the survey — only the Tea Party had a higher negativity gap at 23 points.
Contrary to what liberal elites think, the average American isn’t dumb and can see when someone is abusing his office and allowing politics to drive his decision-making. They may think they can fool the American people, but that is a mistake that many arrogant politicians and government officials have made in the past, and Mr. Holder is just another in a long line of such government officials. From his misbehavior in everything from the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case to Operation Fast and Furious to the IRS targeting scandal, Mr. Holder has shown the public why he is the first and only attorney general in our history to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives.
As a longtime, current employee of the Justice Department told us, Mr. Holder and his subordinates have “racialized and radicalized” the department “to the point of corruption.” They have “embedded politically leftist extremists in the career ranks who have an agenda that does not comport with equal protection or the rule of law; who believe that the ends justify the means; and who behave unprofessionally and unethically. Their policy is to intimidate and threaten employees who do not agree with their politics, and even moderate Democrats have left the department, because they were treated as enemies by administration officials and their lackeys. Another black employee who has worked for the Justice Department for decades said to me, ‘There is no justice left in Justice under this administration.’”
As former Justice Department prosecutor Andy McCarthy has said, the Justice Department under Mr. Holder has become “a sort of full-employment program for progressive activists, race-obsessed bean counters and lawyers who volunteered their services during the Bush years to help al Qaeda operatives file lawsuits against the United States.”
There is no way to know how long it will take to repair the damage that Mr. Holder has done to the management and operation of the Justice Department. One thing we do know for sure — it will take a great deal of work by a new attorney general who is willing to take on the activists that Mr. Holder will leave embedded within the career civil service ranks of the department. And it will take political willpower and steadfastness of a kind that is rarely seen in Washington.
John Fund is a columnist for National Review. Hans A. von Spakovsky is former Justice Department official and contributor at National Review Online. They are the coauthors of “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department” (HarperCollins/Broadside 2014).
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Solicitor General Verelli is who Holder is recommending - looks like it is more of the same.
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
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U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC 20005
Practice:
Appellate and Supreme Court
Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
District of Columbia
State of New York
Cases Argued
Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International (2014)
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014)
Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency (2014)
Harris v. Quinn (2014)
National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning (2014)
Bond v. United States (2014)
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014)
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics(2013)
United States v. Windsor (2013)
Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
City of Arlington, TX v. FCC (2013)
Clapper v. Amnesty International USA (2013)
Fisher v. University of Texas (2013)
Arizona v. United States (2012)
Biography:
DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR. is the Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011. Verrilli took the oath of office on June 9, 2011.
He has argued more than a dozen cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including a variety of cases on behalf of clients in the telecommunications and content industries. He is best known for his 9-0 victory before the Court in 2005 in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., which he successfully argued that companies that build businesses on the illegal distribution of copyrighted material are liable for copyright infringement. The closely watched case was a landmark in the efforts of motion picture studios and recording companies to defeat illegal piracy of their products.
Prior to his appointment as Solicitor General, Mr. Verrilli was a partner in the law firm Jenner & Block, where he chaired the firm's Telecommunications Practice and was Co-Chair of its Appellate and Supreme Court Practice. He also concentrated his practice on First Amendment and media litigation. Some of his other Supreme Court cases include Howard Delivery Service, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance Co., (2006), a bankruptcy case involving priority for unpaid workers compensation premiums. He also successfully argued General Dynamics Land Systems v. Cline, (2004), a case in which the Court ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act does not authorize "reverse discrimination" suits, FCC v. Next Wave Personal Communications, (2003), in which the Court returned to NextWave billions of dollars worth of wireless phone spectrum licenses that the FCC had sought to repossess from NextWave while it was in bankruptcy, and Verizon Communications v. FCC, (2002), the most important case arising out of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. On a pro bono basis, he successfully defended the right to effective counsel in Wiggins v. Smith (2003).
Mr. Verrilli received his J.D. with honors from Columbia University in 1983, where he was a James Kent Scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He received his B.A. cum laude with Distinction in History from Yale University in 1979. He clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court, and Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
He was an adjunct professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught First Amendment law, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia Law School. In 2004, Mr. Verrilli received The Arthur von Briesen Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association for his volunteer contributions to the equal justice community. He was also honored for his contributions to the equal justice community in 2006 with The Equal Justice Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Mr. Verrilli is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.
Education
Yale University, B.A. with Distinction in History (1979)
Columbia University, J.D. with Honors (1983)
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No Deval Patrick is being named as a possible.
This Is Who Could Replace Holder As Obama’s Next Attorney General, And You Won’t Like It
...it's highly likely that nomination will be made very soon -- possibly even later today.
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With the news that Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning — planning to step down as soon as President Obama names a successor and moves him through Senate approval — the inevitable speculation begins. Who will be Obama’s pick to fill Holder’s very big shoes — and to provide the kind of political cover and policy support Obama and company will expect and demand?
One person who has been frequently been suggested is Deval Patrick, currently the Governor of Massachusetts. From NBC News:
Patrick, who – like Holder – is African-American, is retiring from the governorship after eight years in the job.NBC News is also naming another top candidate…someone whose gender and sexual orientation could energize two big segments of the Democrat base the party desperately needs to turn out for the upcoming midterms.
But there could be a slight hiccup with that choice: Massachusetts has a vacancy at lieutenant governor, so there isn’t a natural successor who could replace Patrick if he were picked and confirmed before he leaves office.
If Obama decides to replace Holder with a career prosecutor, a top Democratic Hill aide tells NBC News that one possibility would be retiring U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan in Seattle, who has been described as the first openly gay U.S. attorney.Breitbart News recently reported that the prosecutor behind the indictment of conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D-Souza could be in the running.
Preet Bharara, a former staff member to Senator Chuck Schumer, helped lead the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration. As the U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York, he has received glowing press accounts from the media for cracking down on insider trading.Another name in the speculative mix: Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. — identified by NPR as “the man behind the defense” of ObamaCare.
Whoever Obama names to replace the Attorney General who has loyally provided cover and protection for this president, it’s highly likely that nomination will be made very soon — possibly even later today.
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Hey Hey what a guy!!!!!
Sharpton In ‘Conversations’ To Choose Holder Successor
by Christine Sisto, National Review | published on September 26, 2014
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A Thursday press conference in Washington that was meant to announce a planned civil rights march on Washington DC instead turned into a eulogy for the attorney generalship of Eric Holder.
The National Urban League, the National Action Network, and the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner asked for congressional leaders to pass a law requiring police officers to wear body cameras and announced a civil rights march on Washington, scheduled for later in the fall.
But in the midst of the conference came news that Holder — who has defined himself as an “activist” and repeatedly involved the Department of Justice in high-profile local cases — is resigning. MSNBC host Al Sharpton, the guest of honor, also expressed his fondness for Holder.
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