Mike said:good frickin riddance is all I can say. But it will take years to uninstall the corruption embedded in the DOJ by him.
Whitewing said:Mike said:good frickin riddance is all I can say. But it will take years to uninstall the corruption embedded in the DOJ by him.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. What a disgrace, a nightmare for law and order in the United States.
What have they lost? Something like 13 SCOTUS cases in a row?
The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is "engaged in immediate conversations" with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, who is set to announce his resignation Thursday afternoon.
"We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder," Sharpton said in a statement.
Sharpton praised Holder, the first African-American attorney general, as the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights.
"The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community," he said. "We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most."
According to a Politico profile in August, in the aftermath of the racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton has become Obama's "go-to man" on race issues.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Sharpton is involved in the decision-making process for Holder's successor.
In his statement, Sharpton further urged Holder or his successor to promptly take over the investigations of both the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whose fatal encounter with the police triggered the Ferguson protests, and the death of Eric Garner during a New York Police Department arrest in Staten Island.
"As I stood with the families of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner of Staten Island, New York, and called on the Justice Department to take over the criminal investigations of those cases …. today, we hope Attorney General Holder will authorize this before his departure or that it becomes the first order of business for his successor," Sharpton said.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-says-hes-helping-pick-the-next-attorney-general-2014-9#ixzz3EMFoIew5
Holder will remain at the Department of Justice until his post is filled, and no successor will be named Thursday. The Justice Department official suggested Holder could remain on the job until December.
Selective amnesia of the Bush Presidency and the Dems?Oldtimer said:Holder will remain at the Department of Justice until his post is filled, and no successor will be named Thursday. The Justice Department official suggested Holder could remain on the job until December.
Which brings up a very interesting situation...
Since Holder is thought by many rightwingers as the epitome of all Evil- will Senate Republicans vote to immediately confirm whoever Obama nominates, so they can rid themselves of Holder-- or will they play the filibuster games like they have with so many other appointees... :???: :wink:
Yeah, I hope he's ruined so we don't see that bastard pop up again somewhere.ranch hand said:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/25/critics-are-claiming-this-could-be-the-real-reason-behind-attorney-general-eric-holders-resignation/
Brad S said:OT the term that escapes you is bork , will the RNC Bork the new nominee?
Do you know who Bork is and who borked him? So you want to cast a critical pall over the pubs if they bork someone?
Holder is a criminal. And a criminal enabler and is held in contempt of congress. You socialist bastards just try send him to the Supreme Court.
Brad S said:Bork hated everything nixonian. Nixon could have been Obama if he lied and cheated better and couldn't pronounce marine corps. How the hell is the EPA power grab constitutional? Bork would strike that down. It's constitutionally for the fed to promote welfare as long as they do it within the constitution. The EPA seizes mountains of sovereignty. Bork and Nixon couldn't have been more opposite.
On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Richardson's top deputy, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, also considered the order "fundamentally wrong" and also resigned, making Bork the Acting Attorney General. When Nixon reiterated his order, Bork complied and fired Cox, an act later found to be illegal in November of that year in a suit brought by Ralph Nader. The Justice Department did not appeal the ruling, and because Mr. Cox indicated that he did not want his job back, the issue was considered moot. Bork remained Acting Attorney General until the appointment of William B. Saxbe on January 4, 1974.
In his posthumously published memoirs, Bork stated that following the firings, Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court. Nixon was unable to carry out the promise after his resignation, but Bork was eventually nominated for the Supreme Court in 1987.