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Loretta Lynch Nominated to Replace Eric Holder As Attorney General
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-usa-holder-idUSKCN0HK1QP20140925
Brought up in the Policing thread, but I feel it deserves a thread of its own.
Eric Holder is resigning from his post as Attorney General, effective as soon as a replacement can be found. He's had an interesting six years in charge of Justice, with what I think were a lot of excellent moments. He's particularly been candid and blunt about race in a way the President probably can't be, which made Jamelle Bouie compare him to Luther from Key & Peele. He's also made the Civil Rights Division considerably more active than under his predecessors and was aggressive at attempting to protect Voting Rights, even after the Shelby County ruling.
No speculation on a successor that I've seen yet, but I have to feel he'll be missed.
Brought up in the Policing thread, but I feel it deserves a thread of its own.
Eric Holder is resigning from his post as Attorney General, effective as soon as a replacement can be found. He's had an interesting six years in charge of Justice, with what I think were a lot of excellent moments. He's particularly been candid and blunt about race in a way the President probably can't be, which made Jamelle Bouie compare him to Luther from Key & Peele. He's also made the Civil Rights Division considerably more active than under his predecessors and was aggressive at attempting to protect Voting Rights, even after the Shelby County ruling.
No speculation on a successor that I've seen yet, but I have to feel he'll be missed.
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I see liberals are upset about Holder not going after Wall Street, but people are insane if they think anyone that would have been confirmed for the AG position would, and he did go after banks and such not as hard as he could have but he didn't completely ignore them. Much like Obama, Holder was given a shitty mess to clean up and due to factionalism in merica his job got harder day by day. I'll miss him.
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I think someone swapped his cabinet for a Lazy Susan.
I don't know why the GOP put their eggs in the Bengazi basket and not F&F
He will be missed.
I'll miss Holder a lot. Dude could come out and say some stuff on race you NEVER hear elsewhere in the federal government.
I did notice he won't resign until he has a replacement. Could be amusing to see who Dems put up, knowing the GOP loathes holder.
Most presidents seem to have 2-3 attorney generals and most people tend to hold the position for about 3-4 years. The last president to only have one attorney general during his time was John F. Kennedy, and the last president to survive his term as such was Herbert Hoover.
The other positions have changed a bit more than expected though.
Because F&F was an issue of gun laws in Arizona being completely insane and not one of horrendous federal over reach. Literally the feds could do nothing about obvious straw buyers because its not illegal on its head to do what they were doing specifically because of NRA right wing bullshit.
And the only "gun walking" that occurred was by the "whistle blower" at the ATF that had a serious axe to grind.
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It has a nice chart of average tenures of cabinet members, per position. Ignore the second chart, average tenure per president, which is meaningless until Obama finishes his term. Attorney General is in a four-way tie for longest average tenure, along with Education, HHS, and Interior. That is 3.72 years. Holder well surpassed that, as well as Education's Duncan, HHS's Sebelius, and Interior's Salazar. There are also two incumbents (Jewell and Burwell of Interior and HHS respectively) who have not reached that goal, but have plenty of time.
On F&F: the current GOP doesn't put all their eggs in one basket, Benghazi or otherwise. They have a history of throwing everything at Obama and seeing what sticks. F&F was big when it came out, but quickly died out when people started realizing nothing was going on. The right-wing were the only ones that gave a shit in the first place, and at this point it's become very boring. But Darrell Issa, the Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (or, as I think of him, head OGRe) is still pressing on F&F. It's not forgotten. It's just that, at this point, Issa is just making constant requests for documents and answers for stupid questions, it's all tied up in court, and it's not interesting or exciting and there's really nothing that could possibly stick to Obama. Going after Holder might be a slightly less stupid move (emphasis on "slightly less") but now that's not going to matter much, either.
Edit: I like the juxtaposition of the current articles on 538. Article on why Holder's replacement will have a tough confirmation followed by an article on why Ginsberg would have an easy confirmation if she were nominated today. I guess it shows different priorities in nominations: SCOTUS can make it through relatively easily, the cabinet has a tough time but is doable, and fuck all the nominees for judges lower than the Supreme Court.
Its what makes sense. His term is up in November, he has the experience, he's an early Obama supporter.
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Because Eric Holder wont be running for president.
Anyway, Ted Cruz is insisting they shouldn't confirm anyone until after the new Congress, by which he actually means until 2017.
F&F hasn't died on the right at all. It's just not the animal that Benghazi is. F&F, along with a bunch of other non-scandals you've never heard of or haven't made the real news in ages, are still big things circulating through the right-wing media bubble.
Especially in year six.
See, this is good because Rand Paul wanted to use drones on the Boston bomber and other criminal activities.
Because he's such a defender of civil liberties.
He said he's not interested.
Although the propriety of the thing kind of comes across as a giant sigh from Holder, to me.
Do note that "right now". Also note that he'll be looking for a job come January.
He's still in the mix.
Stonewalled and dissembled enough to be held in contempt of Congress, the first AG ever.
I like that you pretend that was anything other then partisan bullshit.
And conspiracy speculation/ranting is what Fast and Furious discussion among the right has been reduced to.
My favorite is how Holder was voted in contempt but no charges, contempt or otherwise, were actually filed. Almost like the whole thing was a manufactured controversy from the start.
Let's be honest, there is no response short of "Barack and I thought of the whole thing and we're both resigning" that would have satisfied them enough to not hold him in contempt.
The idea of the current Congress holding anyone in contempt would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.
I'm surprised they even found the time to do it instead of voting to repeal the ACA for the 1,146th time.
The contempt? Or the stonewalling and dissembling.
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Indeed. Given how many investigations they've launch on BENGHAZI!, you'd think they could have slotted in some time to follow up on the first time an AG has ever been found in contempt of Congress.
You know, unless there's even less there to find then there is with BENGHAZI!.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-obama-nomination
CNN so grain of salt.
Loretta Lynch, US Attorney in Brooklyn, both under Obama and Clinton. Left to be a partner at some law firm and served on the New York Fed for a couple years. Would be the first black woman to serve as AG if nominated and confirmed.
And yeah, when did Patrick's name come up prior to now in the conversation?
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As a furriner the vibe I get is that Attorney General is in the same category as SCOTUS in that it's really politically risky to dilly dally with that.
You would assume so, but the media hasn't exactly called them out before when like, the world economy was at stake.
The republicans have already said they're going to raise executive action as a litmus test for her confirmation; Obama needs to tell republicans to go screw and confirm her now while the democrats still control the senate.