Loretta Lynch - Eric Holder 2.0?
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Dimitris Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice Home Affairs Ministerial meeting in Washington
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Almost two months have passed since Eric Holder, the American with Bajan ancestry who made history in 2009 by becoming the first black person to serve as United States attorney general, surprised the country by stepping down.
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.
If there had been a Thurgood Marshall on the court instead of Justice Clarence Thomas, Holder would have gone down in history as one of our greatest attorneys general. Indeed, he still will go down as one of our greatest attorneys general.
He did a very good job in a very difficult situation and I hate to see him go, Young told the Sunday Sun in an interview in the Bahamas where he participated in the 19th annual Caribbean Multinational Business Conference.
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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Holder: "Our goal is to build the capacity to fight foreign terrorist fighters within the rule of law."
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Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration is sending prosecutors and law enforcement advisers abroad, and urging other countries to overhaul their laws to make it easier to prosecute people who return after being involved in terrorism.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Justice Department has dispatched lawyers to 14 countries -- four in the Balkan region and 10 in North Africa and the Middle East -- to work with policymakers there.
"These personnel will provide critical assistance to our allies in order to help prosecute those who return from the Syrian region bent on committing acts of terrorism," Holder said at press conference.
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Holder: U.S. pushing other countries to beef up terrorism laws