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Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General
NPR ^ | 09/25/2014 | Carrie Johnson

Posted on 09/25/2014 7:51:25 AM PDT by Pyro7480

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; breaking; camelfacedracist; commie; ferret; holder; holderresigning; racist; weasel
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To: Pyro7480

YEAH!

Another commie down!


61 posted on 09/25/2014 8:09:54 AM PDT by wastedyears (Aldnoah.Zero - Best new anime of 2014.)
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To: Pyro7480

Looks like the polls are really really really bad for Demon Rats.

Under the bus you go, Eric.


62 posted on 09/25/2014 8:10:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Pyro7480

Watch Obama appoint Lois Lerner as his replacement.

63 posted on 09/25/2014 8:11:01 AM PDT by caligatrux (...some animals are more equal than others.)
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To: Tugo
Adios MoFo. Good Luck on your future position.


64 posted on 09/25/2014 8:11:24 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Pyro7480

This is a prime example of closing the barn door after all the cows have run away!!!


65 posted on 09/25/2014 8:12:20 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: Jane Long

Holder will not be on SCOTUS.


66 posted on 09/25/2014 8:12:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Pyro7480

He’s first up for indictment and impeachment so it’s probably appropriate.


67 posted on 09/25/2014 8:12:48 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: wiggen

The new Senate doesn’t take office until January 2015. The lame duck session will be used. Since Reid invoked the nuclear option on confirmations so that only 51 votes are needed, Obama’s nominee will sail thru.


68 posted on 09/25/2014 8:13:03 AM PDT by kabar
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To: RandallFlagg
Probably getting ready to flee the country.

Why? The Rule of Law is sooooo yesterday.
69 posted on 09/25/2014 8:13:13 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: kabar

Nah, if the GOP wins back the Senate, despite its ineptitude, it will rush through a confirmation in the lame duck session—so fewer Senators in line for eventual reelection will have to vote in favor of Barry’s nominee.


70 posted on 09/25/2014 8:13:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: molson209

“Holder hurting Obama’s poll numbers , LOL, no I go with Health Problems”

Maybe all those “Holder Pincushion Dolls” are beginning to impact him!


71 posted on 09/25/2014 8:13:58 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: Pyro7480

So who will be the new thug in charge?


72 posted on 09/25/2014 8:14:39 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: Pyro7480
They want to make sure that the Harry Reid controlled Senate will be able to push through confirmation of Holder's far left wing replacement before the end of the year.

A Republican controlled Senate could (but probably won't) refuse to confirm a far left wing replacement.

73 posted on 09/25/2014 8:15:08 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: clintonh8r

Next stop: SCOTUS. Bank on it.


Nope. Book deal and rubber chicken public speaking circuit. He will rake in millions. He he has to bail now because he will get much bigger bribes for that “work” with the kenyan still in the WH.


74 posted on 09/25/2014 8:15:20 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: cotton1706
I wonder if the media will mention that the people’s representatives held him in Contempt of Congress?

Rolling on the flood laughing my ass off... hell would freeze over before the MSM would mention that...

75 posted on 09/25/2014 8:15:54 AM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: LucyT; maggief; WildHighlander57; crosslink; onyx

Timing—
Time to be indicted and then pardoned by 0
Free as a bird!


76 posted on 09/25/2014 8:16:26 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Pyro7480

Another reason to dump Harry Reid.
We must take the Senate to stop a worse appointment.


77 posted on 09/25/2014 8:16:27 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: 9YearLurker

See my post #68. Under Reid, it only takes 51 to confirm cabinet positions. If, and it is a big If, the Reps take the Senate, you can expect a flood of confirmations during the lame duck session.


78 posted on 09/25/2014 8:16:50 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Pyro7480

Good riddance, but whoever replaces him will probably be worse. “Hell to pay” and all that.


79 posted on 09/25/2014 8:17:01 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: txhurl
Holder announced this a year ago. Bet his successor is Hispanic.

and most likely an ardent communist and muslim sympathizer too.

80 posted on 09/25/2014 8:17:11 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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