Discussion: White House Won't Nominate Eric Holder's Successor Before Midterms

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I have the feeling that the Obama administration is holding up not only the Attorney General position, but also sending American troops into Iraq to fight ISIS until after the elections.

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I think this is a ploy to hide his long form birth certificate.

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“I’m hopeful that we’ll have — and I’m confident that we will have — somebody who shares my views on protecting the right to vote, [who] will be really aggressive when it comes to enforcing civil rights statutes,” Holder said on Tuesday.

Does that read like a tacit endorsement of Tom Perez by Eric Holder to anyone else? Especially when considering that Perez was Asst. AG for Civil Rights for Obama’s first term.