Eric Holder Jr. has returned home to Covington & Burling after more than six years as U.S. attorney general, and he said it is the “last stop” in his legal career. He even ruled out a U.S. Supreme Court appointment, if he is asked.
That means that if Hillary Clinton were elected president and offered him a seat on the high court, he would have an answer ready.
“I’d say, ‘Madame President, with all due respect, you need to pick somebody who’s a) younger and b) who’s a lot more interested,’ ” Holder said in a candid interview with The National Law Journal at Covington’s new office in downtown Washington.
Holder, 64, explained that after he served as a District of Columbia Superior Court judge for five years earlier in his career, he decided that judges were referees, and “I want to be a player.”
Eric Holder joined Twitter recently
You know, I was so affected by what happened in Charleston at Mother Emanuel, that I just felt the need to express feelings that I had. And so I always said I wasn’t going to go on Twitter, and I wasn’t going to go on Facebook—and I’m not going to go on Facebook—so I did a tweet [ @EricHolder.]
Read the full article at the National Law Journal.
