Eric Holder, the United States’ first black attorney general, will announce later on Thursday that he plans to resign from his post as soon as a successor can be confirmed.The Right Wing Noise Machine has been calling for Holder's resignation since the day after he took the job. So expect a lot of cheering from those guys.
Obama should find the most militant Asian-American feminist that he can find and nominate her.
My biggest knocks against both Holder and his boss are that they did not have the stones to go after the bankers whose fraudulent actions brought about the Great Recession. Nor did they have the guts to prosecute the torturers in the Bush Administration.
The former have now escaped justice. The latter, well, someday they'll be held to account.
It's not the race that most of us had a problem with, it was his racism; he was an unabashed bigot and no friend of the police that he was supposed to back.
ReplyDeleteThat and his scandal-ridden history of arranging pardons for cash going back to the Clinton days.
But I agree with you that he was wrong to let the bankers that broke the rules escape justice, but then money talks and most of them wrote checks to his boss or their political party.
Pity that we can't just get Ed Meese back, isn't it?
I don't see the Justice Department's job as backing police. When the cops fuck up, they should be prosecuted. When their departments fuck up, the bad cops should be prosecuted and the departments made to comply with the law.
ReplyDeleteThat's what civil rights laws are for.
"...no friend of the police that he was supposed to back."
ReplyDeleteWow, just WOW! I've looked carefully over the role of the Attorney General of the United States, but I can only find how he's supposed to protect the Constitution and such. Wherever it is this kind of thought process/belief comes from, it explains so much about the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror".
+1. Since the passage of the Civil War Amendments, the AG's job has included policing local law enforcement, any time they feel inclined to let slide certain parts of their responsibilities.
ReplyDeleteAny AG who thinks s/he's got the cops' backs is doing the wrong job.