Morality in Media. Ha! Republicans are swimming in gambling money. More like Don't Look Over There!

Obama could nominate Ed fuckin' Meese and this Congress, and the next one, would reject him on principle (the principle of "Obama is the Antichrist").

Holder's legacy is amazing down in Central and South America. Needless to say that's a region of the planet he probably won't be traveling to...ever.

I'm sorry to hear this - I thought Holder was a fine pragmatist, in spite of the whistleblower prosecutions. I'm guessing the timing is in anticipation of no successful confirmations after November.

my impression has always been that he doesn't make any impression. i truly don't understand the tizzy he throws the right into; he's been as cautious and non-provocative as his boss. what is his signature achievement? settling out of court with the banksters?

@2 That's why I thought Holder's job was safe, at least internally. No matter who Obama presents to the Senate, you can count on assholes like Sessions, Graham & Cruz to throw tizzy fits and think it's an opportunity to repeal the ACA. Sending Durkan into that confirmation mess would be a horrifying shit-show.

So, more medical marijuana prosecutions than Bush (after telling congress he wouldn't), refusing to prosecute any large banks for their ridiculously illegal behavior, signing off on secret monitoring of journalists and defending surveillance programs, along with secret Presidential kill lists.

He did a few good things, too. But that's not a "complicated legacy." It's an authoritarian legacy.

For Obama, having a do-nothing AG more than anything speaks to the great disappointment of his followers.

You would have expected a firebrand, tormenting the powers-that-be at every turn.

I didn't even know Holder was around until Ferguson last month. And yet, even then, what exactly has he done about it?

No, just like with the people who built the ACA website, Obama continues to show his true self, as a partisan bureaucrat, deigned to promote his friends and party members to positions of power, but with the public getting zero benefit from his anointed ones.

I hope he picks someone that makes the conservatives go crazy. Like a lesbian or a Jew. Or a Jewish lesbian.

@10: There's no reason conservatives would go crazy if he picked a conservative Jewish lesbian.

Here's something to file under "No Such Thing As Coincidence."

On the day Holders resignation was announced: "U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates has denied a request from the Department of Justice to delay the release of a list of Operation Fast and Furious documents being protected under President Obama's assertion of executive privilege. 

The list, better known as a Vaughn index, was requested through a June 2012 FOIA filing by government watchdog Judicial Watch. When DOJ didn't respond to the FOIA request in the time required by law, Judicial Watch sued in September 2012, seeking all documents DOJ and the White House are withholding from Congress under executive privilege claims. President Obama made the assertion on June 20, 2012 just moments before Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt. In July 2014, after two years of battling for information, Judge Bates ordered the Department of Justice to release the Vaughn Index by October 1. DOJ responded by asking for a month long delay in releasing the list with a deadline of November 3, just one day before the 2014-midterm elections. That request has been denied. A short delay was granted and DOJ must produce the Vaughn index by October 22."
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlic…

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Right…
Just like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell did.
What a bunch of fucking racists!