I was hoping for a perp walk.

Via NPR:

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.

http://weaselzippers.us/200727-breaking-...o-resign-today/

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...after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances...

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Right NPR. Way to live in the Liberal bubble....

Obama's election did not improve race relations

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opini...923-column.html

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Whatever happened to "Obamamania"? Recent polls suggest that race relations have gotten worse since President Barack Obama's 2008 election — or, at least, that more Americans think they have.

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Attorney General Eric Holder To Announce He Is Stepping Down - America's Newsroom

Hmmmmm can't help but wonder what Trey Gowdy might have had up his sleeve with his investigations.

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I was hoping for a perp walk.

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Holder as a Supreme Court nominee? Ruth Bader finally gives up the ghost and Obama nominates Eric as a reward for his long career as a Democrat hatchetman and Obama shield?

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Holder as a Supreme Court nominee? Ruth Bader finally gives up the ghost and Obama nominates Eric as a reward for his long career as a Democrat hatchetman and Obama shield?

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Holder as a Supreme Court nominee? Ruth Bader finally gives up the ghost and Obama nominates Eric as a reward for his long career as a Democrat hatchetman and Obama shield?

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"Rush floated that crazy idea today and I thought it was asinine, right away"

Crazy? Asinine? No kidding.

Who currently controls the Senate and will do so until next year? Who has already altered the Senate's rules to expedite appointments and curtail any ability of the Republicans to slow up or prevent Democrats from acting as they wish? Who has nothing to worry about regarding public reaction after the November elections? Remember the House has nothing to say in this matter, only the Democrat controlled Senate.

I can just see Holder coming out of "retirement" because his President, his country needs his wisdom and dedication to duty. Btw, I don't listen to Rush anymore but I am pleased to see he agrees with me on this one, at least as a rational possibility.

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Who currently controls the Senate and will do so until next year?

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Oh, I don't care if you call my comments "asinine" or "crazy". By extension from Rush's comments, they are. But that doesn't change my opinion at all.

As to RBG, who cares what she says? Does she really mean it? Has she already made some kind of a deal with Obama? Besides if not her, although most likely, some other Lib might resign in order to make sure Bambi replaces her/him with an ideologically compatible appointee.

And, seriously, TM, do you think the Senate Dems are going to give a flip about the investigations surrounding Holder? Holder & Co have already stalled, obfuscated, and stymied all such "investigations" and with the active cooperation of the Dem Senate. Just think of how long, and to no avail, the hearings on Fast & Furious have gone on (and on, and on). Thank God for Judicial Watch which has done more to investigate Holder's DoJ than Issa and all his Republican colleagues put together. Besides even if skullduggery in the DoJ is ever shown, one way or the other Holder will be protected, much like a Mafia don is when his underlings commit crimes.