Agreed. If anything, this was done to stave off congressional oversight on investigations that should be ongoing, or started, and aren’t or haven’t.
The IRS thing, for example, is going to come to a halt, until after the election. That’s what you just heard announced.
Congress probably has what they need to fry most of the IRS. Prosecuting them would take the AG. Now there isn’t an AG.
Not sure why everybody is celebrating. He should be in jail. I see this as an expansion of a constitutional crisis.
Just my opinion.
Someone will take over Holder's responsibilities even if he leaves before a replacement is confirmed. Prosecution needs the OFFICE of the attorney general, not the attorney general himself. IIRC, it is the solicitor general who does all the heavy lifting in the AG office and is the one who actually performs as an attorney.