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Obama nominated Michael Horowitz in July of 2011 to fill a vacancy left open by the resignation of Glenn Fine in February. Mr. Horowitz was confirmed in March the following year, and sworn in on April 16th, 2012. It was a nomination Obama would come to regret. Horowitz inherited a position that was effectively neutered in 2011 by Eric Holder's interpretation of § 6 of The Inspector General Act of 1978. (Authority of Inspector General) Holder and his legal team determined that the IG had to request information. This allowed Holder (and other agency heads) to bog down IG requests...

15. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock 14. Oprah Winfrey 13. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu 12. Former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder 11. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo 10. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown 9. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick 8. Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe 7. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy 6. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 5. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker 4. California Sen. Kamala D. Harris 3. Former vice president Joe Biden 2. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren 1. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

The Trump administration announced Monday night it will be reinstating a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020, prompting threats of lawsuits by prominent Democrats. Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra separately announced they will file respective lawsuits to stop the citizenship question from being asked during the census. Holder’s statement called the move by the Trump administration a “direct attack on our representative democracy.” Becerra called the decision, “illegal.” The Commerce Department, which oversees the census, issued a statement announcing the decision: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question...