Posted on 09/25/2014 7:20:26 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
By any measure, the nearly-six-year tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has been one of the most consequential in United States history. His decision to resign, which he announced on Thursday, was long anticipated but still a surprise. He has said he will stay on through his successor’s confirmation, although it is hard to imagine that anyone who could make it through the current Senate will have a comparable impact.
As the first African-American to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official, Mr. Holder broke ground the moment he took office. In a position that rarely rewards boldness — and in the face of a frequently hostile Congress — Mr. Holder has continued to stake out strong and laudable legal positions on many of the most contested issues of our time. But his record is marred by the role the Justice Department played in matters of secrecy and national security under his leadership.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE In 2011, Mr. Holder announced that the Justice Department would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage under federal law as between a man and a woman. The law was unconstitutional, he said. It was a critical moment that foreshadowed both President Obama’s own “evolution” on same-sex marriage the following year and the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling invalidating an important part of the law. Since the court’s decision, nearly two dozen federal courts have struck down state bans on same-sex marriage throughout the country, and the Supreme Court has been asked again to rule on whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage — a question it dodged in 2013.
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VOTING RIGHTS
Legacy? Holders legacy is a divided nation and a disempowered Constitution.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
IOW he was a stone cold racist AG.
Eric Holder’s Legacy = The Department of Obstruction of Justice
He picked and chose what laws to obey and encouraged others to do the sane. That makes him a great AG?
Holder ought to be in prison.
Yeah, by making it legal for ('his people') Black Panthers to intimidate voters, with billy clubs.
The most corrupt AG in history and that is a very high bar to ascend to. We have had some who I think were clearly communists and he is worse than them.
As some other posting mentioned, he basically ran the Justice Department as a Black Panther.
They call it a legacy, I call it a rap sheet.
0,zip,nada,zero......
Had they taken a warm soapy shower together I would not have presumed such fawning drivel. I would have put a, “barf alert” on this myself.
So, it’s OK for the head of the Justice Department to be a flagrant criminal, as long as he is a leftist criminal.
That’s the short form of this NYTimes editorial.
FUNYT.
His “legacy” is lawlessness, racism and affirmative-action incompetence. The bum is a criminal and should be imprisoned.
“America is a nation of cowards.”
Holder should have been sent to prison along with Bill Clinton back in January 2001 when they sold all of those pardons.
How can the NYTimes be so wrong so often. I can’t imagine how stupid they are . . . and I have a good imagination.
Oldplayer
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