After serving nearly six years, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce his resignation Thursday.
Time reports that: “Holder is expected to make his announcement later on Thursday, according to NPR, which first reported the news.”
Obama is scheduled to make a statement from the White House late Thursday afternoon. Holder, 63, and the country’s first black attorney general, has been increasingly “adamant” about leaving the Justice Department soon for fear that he’d otherwise be locked in for the rest of Obama’s presidency, NPR reports, and plans to do so once a successor is confirmed.
NBC reports that Holder is expected to continue to serve until his replacement is found.
Holder, the first African American to hold the job of attorney general, is among just a handful of cabinet officials who have stayed in their posts since the beginning of Obama’s presidency. After his departure, just two – the Department of Agriculture’s Tom Vilsack and the Department of Education’s Arne Duncan – will remain from Obama’s original cabinet.
Holder became a lightning rod for criticism from congressional Republicans, who have pushed for his dismissal over the Fast and Furious gun operation, the IRS targeting scandal, and other high-profile controversies.
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