In the Loop: Is Eric Holder a short-timer?
Is Attorney General Eric Holder readying his exit strategy?
Back in April, our colleague SariHorwitz, citing Justice Department officials familiar with Holders plans, reported that he had decided to stay in his job through the fall midterm elections but that he would not commit beyond the end of the year.
At a February staff meeting, she wrote, he felt faint and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was treated for an elevated heart rate. Holder told close friends that it was spooky and that he felt as if it was a sign he should spend more time with his family something a certain member of his family has been urging him to do.
Granted, there had been speculation last year that he might be gone soon. Now theres renewed speculation that he could be calling it quits, perhaps by the end of this year. But, after the police shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and Holders call for a federal civil rights investigation plus Obamas dispatching him to that locale a few days after the shooting some folks thought hed be obliged to hang in there for a while longer.
On the other hand, his travel schedule this month could give another clue to his intentions.
One of his major goals, we understand, is to visit every U.S. attorneys office in the country all 93 of them. Hes been doing that since he settled in at the Justice Department, and now there are only three left on the list and hes traveling to two of them this week, in Louisville and Lexington, Ky.
Hes saving for last the office nearest and dearest to him at the William J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Scranton, Pa. Holder and Judge Nealon, 87, have been close for many years, after Holder, then a young Justice Department prosecutor, handled a major corruption case in Scranton.
But hes going to Scranton at the end of this month, so thats one more initiative checked off.
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In the Loop: Is Eric Holder a short-timer?