‘Nightmare!’ See why this possible reason for Eric Holder resigning has people terrified

Can one of you lawyer types tell me if there is any reason Obama couldn’t have nominated the s umbag Holder to a SCOTUS opening even if he was still AG? I am no legal expert, but I can’t recall any constitutional prohibition against an AG being nominated – so this seems like a lot of misplaced angst and hullabaloo over his resignation.

Honestly, I cannot see Holder getting through the confirmation process, unless it is AFTER the midterms, the dems lose control of the next Senate, AND Reid uses the nuclear option for a SCOTUS nominee.

Such a series of political moves by Obama would seriously poison any attempts at bipartisanship for the remainder of his term. Holder’s perjury before Congress on his Fast and Furious testimony, which resulted in a contempt of Congress charge, coupled with his shutting down the Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation case, should have resulted in his removal from office and disbarment, much less give him a shot at a SCOTUS seat. The pattern of criminality of this administration makes me believe something else is happening, rather than a launchpad effort setting him up for a SCOTUS appointment.

I sincerely hope I am not wrong. Putting Holder on SCOTUS would be every bit as bad as putting David Duke, or al Zawahiri on SCOTUS.

@retire05:

True, regarding the GOP members on the judiciary committee.

The left has been pressuring Ginsberg to step down while Obama can still pick another extreme leftist, but she has shown no signs of doing so. Leftists do not give up positions of power without a beneficial reason, or to avoid a pending difficulty. I am no legal expert, as I said, but I don’t see how Holder resigning as AG improves any chance for him to be nominated to SCOTUS. What am I missing here?

@Pete:

Such a series of political moves by Obama would seriously poison any attempts at bipartisanship for the remainder of his term.

That is poisoned, dead and buried. Unless there is something both sides unanimously agree on, it ain’t going anywhere.

Holder’s perjury before Congress on his Fast and Furious testimony, which resulted in a contempt of Congress charge, coupled with his shutting down the Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation case, should have resulted in his removal from office and disbarment, much less give him a shot at a SCOTUS seat.

I would imagine the contempt charge itself would, unless resolved, hold up any thoughts of a nomination. But, being as this administration, covered by the MSM (see Todd, above) never seems to worry too much about optics or following the law, anything is possible.

@Bill:

If Congress has any smarts at all (which I doubt) they will continue to go after Holder. Just because he resigns, he is not absolved from any criminal wrongdoing as AG. As a matter of fact, once he is gone, he no longer has the protection of the Oval Office.

@Nanny+G:

The Daily Mail, Nan?

That’s like quoting the National Inquirer.

@Bill:

Oh, make no mistake; Holder was complicit in Fast and Furious. It was a policy gone bad. He, and his boss, thought if they could show that lax gun sales were responsible for the trafficking across the southern border they would get strong anti-2nd Amendment laws. But they were too stupid to know that once those weapons, that they forced dealers to sell, were across the border they could no longer track them.

@Nanny+G:

I’m not buying that snake oil. But…………………………..

if true, then his health is too delicate to become a nominee for SCOTUS as Cruz, Sessions and Lee would turn Holder inside out.