Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight Over Successor

Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight Over Successor
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with Attorney General Eric Holder (R) at a ceremony where Holder announced his resignation at the White House September 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. Holder has been led the Department of Justice since the beginning of the Obama administration in 2009 and plans to remain in office until his successor is named. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s announcement on Thursday that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would leave the administration sets up an election-season scramble for a replacement to carry on Mr. Holder’s civil rights crusade, wage rhetorical combat with Congress and manage the legal complexities of a presidency increasingly drawn into war with terrorists.

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