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Should the pardon of Marc Rich hold up Eric Holder's Senate confirmation?

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Ahead of his confirmation hearings, Eric Holder's role in the 2001 pardoning of Marc Rich has brought allegations of abuses of power at the Justice Dept back under media scrutiny. Read more...

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Richard Cohen

“Holder was involved, passively or not, in just the sort of inside-the-Beltway influence peddling that Barack Obama was elected to end. He is not one of Obama's loathed lobbyists; he was merely their instrument...Maybe he deserves an administration job, just not the one he's getting. ”

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Drew Westen

Political Psychologist / Neuroscientist

“The Senate should ask him much tougher questions about what he will do to rid the Justice Department of a generation of unqualified political appointees with mail-order degrees than about one decision eight years ago. We need to return to competent, honest government, not political theatre.”

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Eric Liu

“Absolutely, since the last eight years of malfeasance, subversion of the Constitution, political strongarming and incompetence at the Department of Justice, as well as the question of Eric Holder's plans for detoxifying the role of Attorney General, are just not that important by comparison.”

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Julian E. Zelizer

Academic

“Democrats need to bring up the issue. For many years now, Democrats have been criticizing the Bush administration for being aggressive, if not abusive, in the use of executive power. ”

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Michael Goldfarb

Blogger

“Holder facilitated a pardon for a Democratic fundraiser/fugitive from justice. [His] decision to support that pardon marked a serious failure of judgment.”

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Ron Bonjean

“The Marc Rich pardon should be a top issue at Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings. It calls for questions about whether Holder was beholden to the power of money and influence within the Democratic Party. The answers that Holder gives should clarify what kind of values he would espouse”

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Pejman Yousefzadeh

Blogger

“I have said before that Eric Holder is a bad choice for Attorney General and today's story in the New York Times only confirms my worries.”

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Jeff Emanuel

Blogger

“Eric Holder's apparently deeper-than-previously-revealed involvement in the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich is an extremely relevant factor in the question of whether or not he can be trusted with the office of Attorney General. ”

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Rick Beyer

“It absolutely must be aired out thoroughly. And that means not hearing “I don’t recall,” or “I have no memory of that.” Anything else will smell of the previous AG’s apparent disdain for the law, due process, ethics, etc.”

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Bradley A. Blakeman

Republican Strategist

“Holder should be properly questioned as to his role in the Rich pardon as the Department of Justice’s point person for it.”

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Lamar Smith

Representative, TX

“Marc Rich was a fugitive for nearly two decades, wanted by the federal government for fraud and tax evasion. If a Republican official had engaged in this kind of activity, he would never receive Senate confirmation.”

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George Lardner Jr.

“Mr. Holder never came close to meeting that standard. He had the last word at Justice on clemency petitions and he saw to it that he had the only word. He brokered one of the most unjustifiable pardons that an American president has ever granted.”

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David Nalle

“At the end of the Clinton administration, he even promoted Clinton's pardons for 16 FALN terrorists and politically connected megacriminal Mark Rich. Hard though it is to believe, these are just footnotes; there are much worse things on his record.”

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Christine Pelosi

Activist

“The 'big issues" in Eric Holder's confirmation hearing will be his ability to keep the American people safe and his ability to manage our law enforcement agencies with the confidence of everyone from the bureaucrats to the beat cops.”

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Lanny Davis

“Anyone trying to make the Marc Rich pardon incident as a reason not to confirm Mr. Holder is wrong, unfair, and in my opinion, will regret doing so. I am confident he will be confirmed by a large margin and will prove to be a great U.S. Attorney General.”

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