Funny, that was my first thought also. Get a replacement in before Republicans take over and force someone actually honest to take the job.
Mine too.
A small group of Republicans (Cruz, Lee, Sessions, Paul, etc) might be able to bottle up such a nomination by running down the clock in the lame duck. There’s a LOT of ground that needs to be covered, not a heck of a lot of time to cover them in, and things will need to happen concurrantly. So filibuster the legislation as much as possible to deny the time necessary to conduct any sort of debate and vote on nominees.
Well, the social “agenda” must roll “forward” so I would not be the least bit surprised if the next attorney general was am African American woman or openly gay Asian, or what have you.
Yep, I knew that Holder would be replaced with another Obama sycophant.