Thanks to VRF.
Yahoo News – by NEDRA PICKLER and JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and pushed to make the criminal justice system more even-handed, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general.
The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama planned to announce Holder’s departure later Thursday. The White House said Holder plans to remain at the Justice Department until his successor is in place.
The 63-year-old former judge and prosecutor took office in early 2009 as the U.S. government grappled with the worst financial crisis in decades and with divisive questions on the handling of captured terrorism suspects, issues that helped shape his six-year tenure as the country’s top law enforcement official. He is the fourth-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history.
In his first few years on the job, Holder endured a succession of firestorms over, among other things, an ultimately-abandoned plan to try terrorism suspects in New York City, a botched gun-running probe along the Southwest border that prompted Republican calls for his resignation, and a perceived failure to hold banks accountable for the economic meltdown.
But he stayed on after President Barack Obama won re-election, turning in his final stretch to issues that he said were personally important to him. He promoted voting rights and legal benefits for same-sex couples and pushed for changes to a criminal justice system that he said meted out punishment disproportionately to minorities.
NPR was first to report his departure.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/official-says-holder-resigning-attorney-general-145625458–politics.html
This criminal is just running for the hills before his butt gets thrown in jail… What a piece of scum…. How many deaths is he responsible for???? Too many to count……. How much money will this scum walk away with….
Don’t forget this guy……He is responsible for so much death and destruction even prior to his appointment….. Another puppet bites the dust….
new “boss” same as the old “boss”
Great! Does that mean we can arrest and hang his ass for treason, now?
is he in the cat bird seat for the possible seat in the Supreme Court?
look OUT! if so
our only hope is that one woman that is close to backing out doesnt do so and he steps in or we will definitely have a fight on our hands real soon
its either that or he sees the freight train coming his way and he wants off the tracks now!
“…our only hope is that one woman that is close to backing out doesnt do so and he steps in or we will definitely have a fight on our hands real soon”
You CAN’T be serious.
Forced out? Or is it getting too hot in the kitchen for him?
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