Eric Holder resigns, and it is a good thing

The Attorney General announced today that he intends to resign when a successor can be found to replace him. It won’t be hard to find a better AG.

Eric Holder played politics with his position, sometimes turning justice on its ear to make some crazy point about his own personal sense of social justice in America.

Who can forget his turning a blind eye on Black Panther thugs who stood outside a polling place with billy clubs. He declined to prosecute on the grounds that white people can’t be discriminated at the polls. That’s something that only white people can do to black people. The rule of law, however, ought not be seen through the color of one’s skin, but by their actions. Holding weapons outside a polling place is an act that would be illegal.

Holder took a pass.

He also authorized the selling of weapons to Mexican drug lords under the code-name “Fast And Furious”. Those weapons were then used to kill innocents up and down the border. His resignation comes just as the details of that misguided adventure was about to be exposed in the courts.

But perhaps his biggest shame came when he bugged the office of the Associated Press citing “national security”. He should have been fired on the spot for that. In a free country, that kind of action against a news organization is just about as third-world as you can get.

There are some of course who will praise Eric Holder as a ground breaker. He was the first black AG in the country’s history.

But the color of his skin can’t overcome his horrible shortcomings and misjudgments, especially especially when it comes to the civil rights of individuals and a spying government that thinks it is okay to bug the offices of a news organization.

For these and other reasons, history will not look kindly on Eric Holder. And rightly so.