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Heres something you probably never expected to hear: Eric Holder says the Koch brothers should be applauded.

In an extensive interview with the Marshall Project the outgoing U.S. Attorney General praised the libertarian billionaires for donating a substantial amount to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) to bolster the groups indigent client defense efforts.

After admitting he was not aware of such financial contributions before the interview, Holder said: Thats a good thing to hear people from very different places along the ideological spectrum understanding that we have to make our criminal justice system more fair.

The top lawyer lamented how even though it has been 50 years since a landmark Supreme Court case requiring states to provide legal defense for clients unable to afford counsel, many people still do not have their legal needs fulfilled.

Theres a justice gap, he continued. And to hear that the Koch brothers would be contributing money in that way is something that I think should be applauded.

And, oh, hey, speaking of the Koch brothers and criminal justice reform: Back in July, Mediaite hosted a panel event sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute on that very subject, featuring panelists like Texas NAACP head Gary Bledsoe, former NYPD commish-turned-reformer Bernard Kerik, and NACDL executive director Norman Reimer.

The ultimate conclusion: Criminal justice reform is an issue of great importance that should galvanize the right into action as much as it does the left.

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And when President Barack Obama selected Loretta Lynch, a black woman from Americas south a week ago to succeed Holder, the move raised a key question to a higher level: what is Holders legacy?

The answer is important because it offers a template to Lynchs priorities after she becomes the first black woman to head the US Justice Department.

Interestingly, Holder, whose name adorns a judicial complex at the top of Horse Hill in St Joseph in Barbados, is believed to have strongly recommended Lynch to President Obama, his close friend for decades.

It was Lynchs skills as a federal prosecutor, her skill, integrity, independence and impeccable character that recommended her to Holder and the president.

Andrew Young, who shares a page with Holder in American history by being the first person of colour to break a major barrier that had prevented Blacks from occupying a specific cabinet position, in this case the permanent representative to the United Nations, believes Holders legacy is secure.

He is a wonderful, brilliant young man who really won more battles than anybody could have expected, given the system in the federal courts in which he had to work, said Young, who for many years was a close aide to the late Dr Martin Luther King Jr during the height of the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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I was hoping that his going if we [Democrats] had kept the majority in the US Senate, Holder would be on the US Supreme Court. I thought that may have been the reason he was going, he added.

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