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During an exchange with Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, President Obama's nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said she would maintain independence if confirmed for the position. (AP)

The memories of Eric Holder loomed over attorney general nominee Loretta Lynchs confirmation hearing as Republicans reminded her over and over again that one of her most appealing qualities is that shes not him.

The departing attorney generals name was invoked almost 50 times at Wednesdays Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, prompting Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) at one point to scold his Republican colleagues for bashing someone who wasnt there to defend himself.

But if Holder fans thought the bashing was rough with Lynch in the hot seat, its really just a warm-up for Thursdays day two hearing, where Republicans have lined up a series of anti-Holder witnesses.

For now, weve assembled the top Holder-as-punching-bag moments:

1. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asked Lynch if she would uphold and defend the Constitution. Absolutely, sir, she said.

Im glad you said that. Attorney General Holder answered that same question in the same way, Hatch said, adding that Holder broke his promise and so he cast doubt about others who make the same commitment as you did today.

2. John Cornyn (R-Tex.): Let me just stipulate, youre not Eric Holder, are you? Lynch replied, No, Im not, sir.

3. Cornyn, in the same line of questioning, said Holder was heavy on our minds now and wondered if Lynch would consider herself a political arm of the White House as attorney general.

No, Senator, that would be a totally inappropriate view of the position of attorney general, Lynch said.

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Indirectly referencing Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder said that hateful rants and intolerant public statements that have filled recent headlines are not the most pressing issue in the ongoing fight for equal opportunity.

Instead, in a commencement address Saturday, Holder challenged 850 graduates at Baltimores Morgan State University to fight against disciplinary, voting and other policies that quietly and gradually harm minorities.

This is the work that truly matters because policies that disenfranchise specific groups are more pernicious than hateful rants, Holder said, according to prepared remarks. Proposals that feed uncertainty, question the desire of a people to work, and relegate particular Americans to economic despair are more malignant than intolerant public statements, no matter how many eyebrows the outbursts might raise.

He cited the criminal courts as an example, referencing a federal study released last year that found black men and Native Americans endure prison sentences far longer than white men for similar crimes.

A criminal justice system that treats groups of people differently and punishes them unequally has a much more negative impact than misguided words that we can reject out of hand, he said.

The comments delivered Saturday on a school football field before seated graduates have been cast as Holder's most significant remarks on race since early in his tenure when he derided Americans as "cowards" who segregated themselves on weekends, including by going to the "race-protected cocoons" known as malls.

On Saturday, he again said discussion about civil rights should not be something avoided. Holder didnt mention Sterling or Bundy by name but instead cited jarring reminders of the discrimination, outbursts of bigotry and isolated, repugnant, racist views that have been in the news during the past few weeks and months.

The NBA has said Sterling was recorded telling a friend not to associate with black people. Bundy, a cattle rancher who has refused to recognize the federal governments authority, recently told a reporter that blacks were perhaps better off as slaves than as poor people reliant on government subsidies today. After criticism nationwide, both white men said they were not racist.

Holder said swift condemnation and apologies were not enough.

Because if we focus solely on these incidents on outlandish statements that capture national attention and spark outrage on Facebook and Twitter we are likely to miss the more hidden, and more troubling, reality behind the headlines," Holder said.

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