There has been a lot of buzz around the blogosphere regarding the recent announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will resign his position “as soon as a replacement can be found.” Rush Limbaugh opined that Holder may have resigned now to grease the skids for the President to nominate him to the high court.  Now would be a good time, while the President has a majority in the Senate, or at least it looks good if you don’t look too closely. Arguing against such a move would be that Obama would have to convince one of the sitting justices to retire, and retire with the full knowledge that they will be replaced by Eric Holder who has managed to run his string of 9-0 losses before the Supremes up to a staggering total of twenty.  Imagine which one of the Supremes would agree to retire just so the individual that ALL of them said was wrong twenty times could take a seat. Also arguing against the nomination of Eric Holder is the fact that he has...(Read Full Post)