Report: Eric Holder To Stay In Obama Administration Beyond First Term

[Tx4obama]

Eric Holder To Stay In Obama Administration Beyond First Term: Report

Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly staying on for an unspecified time beyond President Barack Obama's first term, according to Fox News.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Holder had accepted President Barack Obama's request to stay on, but the timeline had yet to be settled. The New York Post reported on Nov. 13 that Holder would stay on.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/eric-holder-obama-administration_n_2161081.html

[teddy51]

1. "according to Fox News." Yikes, thats a great source!

[Tx4obama]

3. There are THREE sources listed in the OP/article. n/t

[graham4anything]

2. Eric Holder for SCOTUS!

[teddy51]

6. Not to fucking likely! Eric Holder for retirement would be much more appropriate.

[Tx4obama]

7. What exactly is it that you have against Holder? Just curious. n/t

[teddy51]

9. He has never been there for anything that benifits the American people. The Justice Department

has never reopened investigations into 911. The Justice Department has never brought charges against the Bush Mis-Administration. The Justice Department is totally for the NDAA law.

How many more things would you like me to list?

[Tx4obama]

12. Well I think he has been doing a pretty good job doing things that benefit Americans

Sometimes it's more fair to focus on what someone HAS done and not what they haven't.


Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder#Attorney_General_of_the_United_States


A couple things below that aren't listed in the link above,
there are more but I don't have time right now to post them all for ya

U.S. Arrests 91 In Massive $430 Million Medicare Fraud Bust
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10021487883

New Justice Dept. Task Force Issues Subpoenas to 11 Financial Institutions in Expanded Probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002231600

[Cha]

17. How refreshing.. Thanks for bringing some reality to

what Eric Holder has done. Here's something from Thursday..

"BP Exploration and Production Inc. Agrees to Plead Guilty to Felony Manslaughter, Environmental Crimes and Obstruction of Congress Surrounding Deepwater Horizon Incident"

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-ag-1369.html

[satxdem]

23. thank you

Eric Holder is really demonized on DU, nobody ever comes to his defense and really analyzing his record beyond his record on weed. I really appreciate you shining light on the good he has done. Thought i was alone on it.

[graham4anything]

8. Eric and Janet Reno are two of the all time great AG in America's History.& the right hated both

(btw- I hope President Hillary45 brings back Janet in some job or other in 2017.)

[teddy51]

10. Hilary ain't going to win an election in 2016! She is a war monger, and a former DLC member. She

needs to retire.

[graham4anything]

13. Guess you are not an Obama fan either, being that you seem to dislike every single person he has

[LeftInTX]

21. I liked Janet Reno!!! She added pizazz to the AG office.

[morningfog]

4. God, I hope not.

[boingboinh]

11. +1

[BlueCaliDem]

5. This is GOOD news. This'll scare the bejeezus out of the Righties. Heh . . . eom

[DonViejo]

14. The Murdoch owned NY Post ran...

with this news about a week ago (it's in an OP here on DU); no other news outlet picked up on this so, FOX goes with it, followed by the WSJ. Murdoch seems to be the common denominator here. Some of you might remember Hillary's VRWC (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy), it didn't go away when Hillary and President Clinton left the White House.

[Ken Burch]

15. Good. He should stay on for the full four. Let the right-wing haters swallow it!

n/t.

[tularetom]

16. Bad news for supporters of legalized marijuana

But great news for Wall Street banking crooks and Bush era war criminals.

[John2]

18. So you

are going to blame the U.S. Attorney General of the United States for doing his job? That would be a reason to get him fired, if he didn't carry out the laws of the United States. If you want the law changed, then you go after Congress and not some person doing his professional job as a lawyer. Eric Holder is not a politician. The only problem is he shouldn't let Republicans cow him in carrying out Civil Rights laws too, because they are just as important. Maybe he should focus on People like the nut in Ohio and that nut in Florida. If he did that, he would probably have the whole GOP in trouble.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

24. He chose not to defend DOMA. I guess he should be fired for that.

Other than the marijuana thing, he has been an outstanding AG.

I will give you that.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

19. Great news

For Anheiser Busch, Phizer, Phillip
Morris and the private prison industry. People will keep doing their drugs and filling up their dungeons.

Bad news for anyone in favor of responsible and humane drug reform in this country.

But hey maybe he proves me wrong. I'll still cling to the belief that it's possible.

[David Zephyr]

20. I hope so. Or to the Supreme Court. He's done a great job.

[Tx4obama]

22. I think he would make a great Justice, but his age will probably be a factor.

Holder was born in 1951, he is 61 years old.

I think that Obama's short list will have folks on it closer to the age of 50.

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Here's CNN article link from last month with a list of possible Supreme Court candidates

Supreme Court possibilities if Obama is reelected
List here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/politics/court-obama-list/index.html


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And below is a copy of a DU comment I posted back in September...

We were talking about President Obama's next pick for the Supreme Court here at the house tonight we came to the consensus that there would be only a slim chance that anyone born before 1960 would be appointed.

So, in my opinion, if the next justice is appointed two or three years from now I doubt anyone that was born in the 1940s or early/mid 1950s would be picked.

Sonia Sottomayor was born in 1955 (but was appointed over three years ago) and Elena Kagan was born in 1960.

If President Obama is the one doing the appointing then a couple of folks that probably will show up on his list to consider might be:

Caitlin Halligan, born 1966 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Halligan

Goodwin Liu, born 1970 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Liu

Some folks are rooting for Kamala Harris, bio here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris


Edited to add...

Here's a Chart that shows the current Justices ''Age at Appointment'': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court#Current_justices