AG Eric Holder to Step Down

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Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department

Excellent news!

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no one's missing any points. I hear you, and you hear me, and we disagree.

There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy,
There's only you and me and we just disagree.

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Anyone catch the WSJ Editorial report on Fox News this afternoon?  Sure enough, Eric Holder's tenure as AG came up.  They were all impugning him, Paul Gigot, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Dan Henninger, and the other guy, but Dorothy Rabinowitz was downright frothy about it.  Hapless, cowardly, radical, and the most racially polarizing AG ever, she called him.  I think it's safe to say that the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal isn't shedding many tears over his departure.

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I guess the radical part was when he told the New York Times that an attorney general does not have to enforce any law with which he disagrees.

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Anything is possible, but he was very clear on ways to curb bans on gay marriage in the article Grumps posted, and that's what he was talking to NYT reporters about.  Rabinowitz actually pointed out several others--selective enforcement of voter intimidation, for example, and I can't remember the rest--but there may be some legal subtlety that I'm not appreciating.  

I assume that the AG takes the same oath of office as other public officials, and I assume that his argument is that some cases involve constitutional issues, or that the laws contradict higher laws.  I'm not saying that I agree with all the nation's laws either, but whether you agree with the laws, it seems to me that he is willing pick the ones he likes to defend.