{"id":4224,"date":"2010-03-13T00:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T05:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2010-03-13T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T05:32:49","slug":"prediction-ag-holder-will-be-the-first-cabinet-member-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4224\/prediction-ag-holder-will-be-the-first-cabinet-member-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction: AG Holder Will Be the First Cabinet Member to Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though I don\u2019t subscribe to the idea that public officials should be hounded out of office over policy differences, I do think there comes a time when a person becomes such a distraction that an Administration is probably better off asking for a resignation.\u00a0 That time is fast approaching for Attorney General Eric Holder.\u00a0 By all accounts, he is a decent man with establishment credentials.\u00a0 He may even be a good attorney.\u00a0 But he is not an effective Attorney General.<\/p>\n

To date, Holder\u2019s most consequential decision as AG was moving Guantanamo Bay detainees from a military court system to a New York federal criminal court.\u00a0 Though the decision was apparently fought by the White House, President Barack Obama let Holder make the call.\u00a0 After protests from everybody except the Justice Department, the decision is in the process of being reversed.<\/p>\n

Now, it is revealed that he failed to provide the Senate with seven briefs he signed<\/a> prior to his nomination as AG.\u00a0 Republicans claim these are material omissions that could have derailed his nomination.\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 But all of these are self-inflicted wounds that give the president’s opponents something to crow about.\u00a0 As of today, Holder is a third strike away from being the first Obama Cabinet member to be asked to call it quits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though I don\u2019t subscribe to the idea that public officials should be hounded out of office over policy differences, I do think there comes a time when a person becomes such a distraction that an Administration is probably better off asking for a resignation.\u00a0 That time is fast approaching for Attorney General Eric Holder.\u00a0 By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,498,316,746],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-eric-holder","tag-justice-department","tag-terror-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}