Was I Dreaming, or did Eric Holder leave DOJ as the AG ???

I could of swore he left office a few months back .. now im seeing him in the news with the DOJ "AG Holder" i really thought he resigned and the Dishonorable Al-Sharpton was helping obummer select his replacement

DOJ Eric Holder resigned but will tend to his post till his successor takes office

ahhhh ok so it was another media hype .. play by the white house, that could take a while to happen

It was announced in Sept that he was going to resign -



Eric Holder resigns

Who will replace him?

 Sep 25th 2014, 21:23 by S.M. | NEW YORK



ERIC HOLDER has announced he is stepping down after six years as attorney general. Perhaps the most influential member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, Mr Holder has inflamed Republicans by advancing an agenda that is unusually progressive for the head of America’s justice department. Steve Benen of MSNBC lists the wide range of policy matters on which Mr Holder has inserted himself:

[He] has shown amazing leadership on the issue of LGBT rights. He’s challenged Republican restrictions on voting rights. He’s fought for sentencing reforms. He’s condemned “Stand Your Ground” laws and showed effective leadership during the crisis in Ferguson. He cleared the way for Colorado and the state of Washington to pursue marijuana legalization. He’s worked to reverse the disenfranchisement of the formerly incarcerated.

Given the less-than-cordial relations between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, there is little doubt that the battle over Mr Holder’s replacement will be filled with acrimony. (One recalls the 75-21 vote confirming him in 2009 as the quaint bipartisanship of another era.) Today, Darrell Issa, the Republican House member from California, called Mr Holder "the most divisive U.S. Attorney General in modern history.''


 
But how will the battle be waged? With signs that Democrats may lose the Senate in the November elections growing more ominous, Mr Holder may have chosen to announce his resignation in time to allow his successor to be confirmed before the chamber changes hands on January 5th 2015. The filibuster for non-Supreme Court presidential appointments is a thing of the past since Harry Reid deployed the “nuclear option” last November, so Mr Holder’s replacement can be confirmed by a simple majority vote. Democrats and Independents, for the time being, outnumber Republicans 55-45, so GOP lawmakers can cry and scream all they like while watching Mr Obama install his appointee.
Things get more interesting if the nomination process extends into the new year and Republicans take control of the Senate. One might expect a GOP-held Senate to reflexively reject any nominee Mr Obama puts forward for the job, or at least use the opportunity to score political points by grilling a nominee about drugs, sentencing and voting laws. With this year’s Supreme Court decision in Noel Canning v National Labour Relations Board, Mr Obama’s recess appointment power is highly constrained, making it an implausible work-around for an intransigent Senate.

So who might replace him? The New York Times reports that the president is “a long way” from announcing a contender, but offers a list of possible candidates: Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House counsel; Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts; Donald Verrilli junior, the Solicitor General; Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan; Sheldon Whitehouse, a Senator from Rhode Island; and Loretta Lynch, the United States attorney in Brooklyn.

Assume for a moment that the GOP balks at nominee after nominee. This strategy would surely rankle Mr Holder, who is keen to step down and return to private life. But since Mr Holder has pledged to stay on the job until a replacement is found, it would not give Republicans any immediate leverage in the justice department. Indeed, it would leave in place the most liberal attorney general America has seen in recent memory.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/09/eric-holder-resigns

I thought there are several candidates.. one is from California.. a woman with Indian descent

I bet you this was just another ploy to get people to watch one thing and not what is really going on, usaly when someone resigns they leave the office and the deputy or 2nd in line takes office till another one is selected

Yep.. deter the attention   look how quick they find the replacement for Chuck Hagel.  I don't think there is a candidate yet for Holder

well of course not ... I know no other lawyer that would pull the BS that holder did or does

I thought majority of lawyers are crooked lol  I know some good lawyers, I guess lawyers who are descent choose different path.

naa the good ones are not in the "IT TEAM"

Agree