" Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Official-says-Holder-resigning-as-attorney-general-5780101.php
Good riddance. One of the worst attorney generals we have had.
John Ashcroft would like to have a word with you.
So would John Mitchell.
I thought he was pretty good. What’s the beef with Holder?
Where’s Ed Meese when you need him?
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He’s just not the right sort, know what I mean?
Arguing with Alberto Gonzales over who really was the worst AG.
There was a massive amount of financial crime which resulted in the financial catastrophes and bank bailouts at the end of the Bush and beginning of the Obama administration.
Holder prosecuted virtually none of it.
Except for all the other before him.
It’s doubtful the next AG is going to take those on. Holder’s on record as saying he felt prosecuting banks would’ve hurt the economy.
No AG would have prosecuted the banks. If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big to sue to death. If a nominee says he would prosecute the banks, he’s doomed to be rejected.
Fast & Furious, spying on reporters, not enforcing immigration law (and SUING states that would), the piss-poor defense of Obamacare, suing states with voter ID laws, and otherwise politicizing every issue and not giving a rat’s ass about the actual law he is sworn to protect.
Other than these things, he was a great Attorney General.
Non-scandal that was initiated by his predecessor.
Cite?
Cite?
That’s handled by the Solicitor General, not the AG.
In other words, doing his job by going after lawmakers who are violating the Constitution.
BREAKING NEWS: Politician treates political issues politically. Film at 11.
[QUOTE and not giving a rat’s ass about the actual law he is sworn to protect. [/QUOTE]
And which law would that be?
I think we can all agree, though, that he’s still one of the worst. If you made a list of all the worst US attorneys general, I’ll bet he’d be in the top 100. Probably even in the top 50.
You think he’s bad now, just wait until you see who President Grax the Unmerciful appoints in 2256.
The government allows the sale of firearms to drug cartels, which later turn up in dozens of crime scenes including the killing of Americans, and you say “non-scandal?”
I think that’s all I needed to see from you. You can find your own cites for the others.
Yeah, why should the Attorney General being concerned with whether or not people can vote?
You guys, I just died laughing.
But I’ll come back from the dead to say that while I thought a few years ago that he should’ve quit over Fast and Furious - which turned out to be less scandalous than I thought - his work on sentencing reform and civil rights is tremendously meaningful, and so is his recent work with regard to policing and community relations. All of that would represent a huge improvement to the justice system.
I think he might be referring to the Justice Department’s widespread seizing of reporter’s telephone records?
And if that was in any way at all an accurate description of what happened, it might be an actual scandal.
Of course, it wasn’t, and what did happen happened years before Holder took office and was in no way caused by anything he did.
So you have none, then. Good to know.