Holder Resignation Puts Focus on Senate Confirmation (Lame Duck Confirmation)

NY Times ^ | 9/25/14 | Carl Hulse

[jimbo123]

The announcement Thursday of the resignation of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. touched off questions about his replacement and the timing of any Senate confirmation, given the possibility of a Republican takeover of the Senate in January.

Under changes in Senate rules, administration nominees need only a majority of votes to clear procedural hurdles, preventing Republicans from blocking an attorney general pick by denying the 60 votes usually needed to overcome a filibuster.

[drypowder]

the judge hearing the JW suit to get Holder to release the F&F docs told the DOJ it has to release the docs before the November election. If Holder is no longer the sitting AG then obozo can pardon him without too much political fall out. I surmise Holder will either be the City of Chicago’s Attorney or he will take the position of representing the head of the Chicago mob. There’s not much difference in either of those positions but Holder the criminal would be a perfect fit.

[Oliviaforever]

Hillary wants no part of Obama or that job.

It will be some unknown who has solid legal credentials, but a personal life that will be offensive to Conservatives.

The goals are to distract while getting liberal women to show up to vote.

[Oliviaforever]

It will be a liberal white woman as that’s the only demographic group that can be motivated to vote Democrat.

[corbe]

Your half way there.
1) Black
2) Female
3) Gay
4) Handicapped

I see only one entity fitting all those at this time:

The 3 boobed women recently in the news, I think she’s gay or will say she is, and if three boobs ain’t a handicap, I give UP!

[GOPJ]

If Obama puts up Al Sharpton we would fight him... dems would bow and kiss his ring...

[Bubba_Leroy]

He/she/it also needs to be a transsexual on welfare.

[polymuser]

Obama picks Deaf Black Female Lawyer for White House job

http://deafnewstoday.blogspot.com/2013/07/obama-picks-deaf-black-female-lawyer.html

[capydick]

administration nominees need only a majority of votes to clear procedural hurdles....

Today they are procedural hurdles - if the Pubbies take over the Senate - they will be referred to as silencing the Democrat minority

[xrmusn]

Time to wheel out Janet Reno again.

Or maybe Giffords from AZ?

Definitely someone that the R’s will be ‘afraid’ to ‘dis’.

[RIghtwardHo]

Nope. No difference. In fact ... NOTHING changes if they control the Senate. Furthermore, they will so screw it up that when 2016 rolls around everyone everywhere will pin everything wrong in the world on the feckless GOPe.

I have never been convinced that this GOP taking the Senate in 2014 even remotely resembles a “good thing”.

[Crunchy]

It is possible that Holder knows that Darren Wilson will be found not guilty, riots will ensue across America requiring federal action, and he doesn’t want to appear as a bully to “his people”...

[rwa265]

I don’t think it will be Captain Johnson. Maybe St. Louis County Executive Charley Dooley.

[Political Junkie Too]

I bet Obama appoints a woman, one who is a very liberal woman who just happens to be a single mom with a hardship story. This is only being done to get liberal women to the polls in November.

Kamala Harris.

Currently the District Attorney of California. Formerly the DA of San Francisco. She's a woman, African-American, and Asian-American.

A liberal trifecta.

-PJ

[Oliviaforever]

Harris is aiming for a SCOTUS appointment and being AG for just two years would destroy her chances.

[Vermont Lt]

You guys forgot Deval Patrick. He is not running again and will be out of a job come January.

[zerosix]

I’d heard Rush mention that someone posited Claire McC but don’t think she’s ready for an 18 mo gig, then out!

[Dqban22]

DON’T EXPECT THAT OBAMA WILL PUT A LESS CORRUPT ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ERIC HOLDER’S CAREER: Scandals, activism and race politics

Eric Holder is the fourth-longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history and has attracted more than his share of scandal.

1995 – Holder told the Woman’s National Democratic Club that the DOJ would soon launch a public campaign to ‘really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way ... in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.’

January 2001 – As deputy attorney general, Holder interceded with President Clinton and advised him to pardon Marc Rich, a substantial campaign donor and 20-year fugitive, in a tax-evasion and racketeering case. Clinton granted the pardon during his final hours in office.

Eric Holder also pushed and got from Clinton a controversial presidential pardon for 16 members of violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations. Holder, as deputy attorney general, pressed subordinates to drop objections to clemency for a group of terrorists convicted of numerous heinous crimes. Overall, they had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries.

February 2009 – Holder was confirmed as attorney general by a 75-21 margin in the U.S Senate and became America’s first black attorney general.

February 2009 – A newly minted AG Holder said during a speech marking Black History Month that the U.S. was ‘essentially a nation of cowards’ on race-relations. He said in January 2014 that ‘I would not take that back.

May 2009 – Holder stunned legal watchers by decided to trya terror-bombing suspect in civilian courts instead of giving him a military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention complex. Ahmed Ghailani, indicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies which killed 12 Americans and 212 otherss, became the first Guantanamo prisoner brought to U.S. soil for a trial.

November 2009 – Following an Islamist Army doctor’s jihad-related mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, Holder’s DOJ classified the casualties as the result of ‘workplace violence’ instead of opening a terrorism case.

April 2010 – Holder personally OK’ed search warrants demanding the secret collection of emails belonging to Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen. The DOJ wanted to track the source of a national security leak without Rosen being aware he was being surveilled.

May 2011 – Holder testified under oath during a congressional hearing that he hadn’t heard about the failed ‘gunwalking’ program Operation Fast and Furious until one month earlier. A memo later surfaced from 2010 showing that Holder had been briefed on the program, which lost track of nearly 2,000 guns that killed hundreds including an American border patrol agent.

June 2012 – Congress voted to hold Holder in contempt, an unprecedented move, for refusing to turn over the Fast and Furious documents that a Republican-led committee had subpoenaed.

November 2013 – a Texas Republican congressman filed Articles of Impeachment against Holder but only attracted 26 cosponsors for the bill.

March 2014 – Holder declined Republicans’ demands to appoint an independent Special Prosecutor to probe allegations that IRS officials politically targeted conservative groups with intrusive investigations. Instead he endorsed the work of a DOJ lawyer who was an Obama campaign donor.

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