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Former Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly joining the anti-President Trump "resistance" and mulling a presidential run in 2020.

"I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country," Holder told Yahoo News.Now is the time to be more visible. Now is the time to be heard.

On "Outnumbered" today, Meghan McCain said she can think of a more fitting place for Holder than the White House: the big house.

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She explained that Holderwas held in contempt of Congress in 2012 for refusing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal.

"In any other administration, this man would be in jail, which is where he should be, not running for president," McCain said.

Mercedes Schlapp said that Republicans should actually encourage Holder to run for president, as he's "unfit" for the position and would hurt the Democrats.

She added that Holder would not have the support of the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

McCain said the mere thought of Holder running for president is "asinine."

"It's actually very serious allegations that were brought up against him," McCain said. "So the idea that he's sort of just going to recuse himself from having any culpability in any of that and just run for president is insane."

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Meghan McCain: Eric Holder Should Be in Jail, Not Running for President - Fox News Insider

Up to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes, Holder told Yahoo News in an interview. But thats about to change. I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general. Theres a justified perception that Im close to President Obama. So I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country.

Holder, who served as Barack Obamas Attorney General from 2009 to 2015 before being replaced by Loretta Lynch, also said that he had planned to take a back seat role in politics, but Hillary Clintons defeat in 2016 election inspired him to re-engage in frontline politics.

I thought, frankly, along with everybody else, that after the election, with Hillary Clinton as president, I could walk off the field, he continued. So when she didnt win, I thought, Well have to see how this plays out. But it became clear relatively soon and certainly sooner than I expected that I had to get back on the field and be in effective opposition.

Since Trump took office, Holder has been involved in legal attempts to torpedo Donald Trumps immigration agenda. In January, he was hired by Democratic leaders to represent the state of California to maintain its status as a sanctuary city.

On Monday, Holder spoke at a public meeting at the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles, alongside California Senate leader Kevin de Leon, to promote legislation known as the California Values Act, which prevents local police from enforcing immigration law.

During the meeting, Holder claimed that the federal government does not have the ability to force states to do things that are inherently federal in nature, and that attempts to withhold federal funds for failing to comply with immigration law are unconstitutional.

Now is the time to be more visible, Holder added. Now is the time to be heard.

Other Democrats muted as potential 2020 presidential candidates include Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former vice-president Joe Biden.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder Considering 2020 Presidential Bid - Breitbart News

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that even though he has been living outside of politics since leaving the Department of Justice more than two years ago, he is looking to get back into the political fray.

"Up to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes," said Holder in an interview with Yahoo News. "But that's about to change. I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general."

He added: "There's a justified perception that I'm close to President Obama. So, I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country."

In the past few months, Holder has been working as outside counsel to the California legislature and other Democrats to undercut President Trump's policies in the state.

However, Holder lives and works in Washington, D.C. as a partner at Covington & Burling.

Holder explained he expected to stay out of politics since leaving the Obama administration but the 2016 election results changed his mind.

"I thought frankly, along with everybody else that after the election, with Hillary Clinton as president, I could walk off the field," he said. "So when she didn't win, I thought, We'll have to see how this plays out.'"

"But it became clear relatively soon and certainly sooner than I expected that I had to get back on the field and be in effective opposition," Holder elaborated in the interview, published Tuesday.

Holder said he will join efforts with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a new group backed by Obama to prepare Democrats for 2020 and districting redrawing in which he will "be more visible."

"We have come too far as a nation, sacrificed too much, made too much progress, to allow the state of our nation to be undermined by the extreme part of a divided minority administration," Holder said, calling Trumpism "the worst of us."

"If opposition is to be the course and it must be we must recognize and remember that the power of the American people has been too often underestimated. Once roused we are a mighty force," he said.

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Eric Holder ready to take on Trump - Washington Examiner

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi arrives at the DCCC headquarters in Washington, DC on Nov. 8, 2016. Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA, file

Holder met last week with donors and labor leaders in Washington, D.C., and was joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe for small sessions with top party fundraisers in five major cities over the past two months.

Wherever hes gone, Holder said, hes been surprised that people really understand how important this is.

The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which first launched in January, brings together under one roof the official Democratic committees responsible for electing governors and legislatures, along with related super PACs and other relevant groups.

Unlike past efforts in either party, that centralization will allow the group to coordinate Democrats full slate of redistricting efforts from lawsuits, to electoral campaigns, to ballot measures designed to change the redistricting process, to the data-heavy art and science of the actual map drawing.

Having all of those tools in one place that is a major innovation. That has never been done before, said Kelly Ward, the NDRCs executive director, who left a similar role running the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to join the new group.

Both parties gerrymander, but Republicans have been better at it, thanks in part to well-timed wave election in 2010. A

We have to do this as Democrats because were at a major structural disadvantage right now. The Republicans broke the system and we have to go in and fix it, Ward told NBC News.

Ahead of next years midterm elections, the NDRC is focusing on states that happen to have key races and be some of the most gerrymandered in the country, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota. It is a perfect storm in all the right places, said Ward.

One potential hurdle for the group is its own incumbent lawmakers, who like having safe districts where they win by comfortable margins, even if it might be better for the party as a whole if some of their voters were drawn into neighboring districts which could help elect more Democrats.

Thats been especially true in legally protected majority-minority districts, where a so-called

Holder, who calls fairer districts a civil rights issue, acknowledged it will take some persuasion with some.

But he said he thinks times are changing as Democrats grow frustrated with being out of power, pointing to examples like Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), who gave up some reliable voters in his district for the good of the party.

People in the House are tired of being ranking members they want to be chairmen. And this is the way in which we change their status, Holder said.

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Eric Holder Plans to 'Make Redistricting Sexy' - NBCNews.com

Uber hired former attorney general Eric Holder to give it some advice about its scandal-ridden workplace. Predictably, much of that advice turned out to be more politically correct than legally sound, much like the Justice Department when he was running it. Alas, the Uber board has already announced that it will adopt Mr. Holders recommendations.

In particular, Mr. Holder wants Uber to get its numbers right, by hiring more underrepresented minorities and women. And so: The Head of Diversity (or Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer) should set goals with respect to annual improvements in diversity and regularly publish data on Ubers diversity and inclusion numbers to judge how the company is meeting its goals.

Mr. Holder recommends that Uber adopt some version of the Rooney Rule, which is illegal, since it requires the sorting of job applicants by race, ethnicity, and sex. Perversely, he also recommends that Uber have blind resume review that is, resumes that have had all indicators of race, ethnicity, and sex removed from them which is a fine idea but flatly inconsistent not only with the Rooney Rule but with the rest of his recommendations. Those recommendations, for example, urge setting and meeting diversity goals and then rewarding and punishing (recognizing and holding accountable, meaning getting bonuses and getting fired, see recommendation II.D) managers based on metrics that are tied to improving diversity. In a word, quotas.

Candidates who are themselves diverse is one quality the board should look for in the new chief operating officer. Theres plenty in the recommendations on unconscious bias but nothing on the quite conscious bias that would be required by them. Tellingly, Mr. Holder criticizes the companys embrace of Meritocracy and Toe-Stepping as a corporate value.

There is a simple choice to be made here, folks, whether were talking about jobs or university admissions or government contracts or whatever. We can strive for nondiscrimination, which is what fairness and the law require, or we can mandate diversity, which inevitably means politically correct discrimination, which is in turn neither fair nor legal. We cant have both. Nondiscrimination will lead to more diversity if the status quo was politically incorrect discrimination, but it is nondiscrimination that must be the aim, not a predetermined bean-count.

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