The supposedly apolitical attorney general rejected his own inspector general’s recommendation against hiring lawyers from left-wing civil rights groups, such as the Students of Color Coalition, the Black Organization of Soul Sisters, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the Workers’ Center of Racial Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Yet Holder has the gall to claim in a “legacy” video posted on Justice’s website, “Attorney General Eric Holder: People’s Attorney,” that he “depoliticized Justice Department hiring practices.”