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Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages in states affected by the Supreme Courts recent decision not to review decisions that overturned marriage bans in those states.

We will not delay in fulfilling our responsibility to afford every eligible couple, whether same-sex or opposite-sex, the full rights and responsibilities to which they are entitled, Mr. Holder said. With their long-awaited unions, we are slowly drawing closer to full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans nationwide.

Heterosexual-marriage advocates were hoping the Supreme Court would overturn several lower court rulings that legalized same-sex marriage. But instead, the nation's highest court declined to even hear the case, essentially letting the lower court rulings stand and gay marriage to become legal.

The states chiefly affected by the ruling are Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and as of Friday morning Arizona. Mr. Holders announcement was widely expected by legal experts, who point to the administrations quick support of same-sex marriage in any state it becomes legal.

The steady progress toward LGBT equality weve seen and celebrated is important and historic, Mr. Holder said. But there remain too many places in this country where men and women cannot visit their partners in the hospital, or be recognized as the rightful parents of their own adopted children; where people can be discriminated against just because they are gay.

But Mr. Holder did add that the Justice Department would be ready should the debate about same-sex marriage ever eventually reach the Supreme Court.

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WASHINGTON (AP) It wasn't difficult for Barack Obama and Eric Holder to be in the same orbit. Both were sons of immigrants, Columbia Ivy Leaguers, basketball fans and prominent African-American political figures.

They first met nearly 10 years ago, dinner guests of a mutual Washington friend who seated Holder next to the newly elected senator from Illinois.

On Thursday, Obama announced Holder would be stepping down as his attorney general, one of his longest serving Cabinet members.

"This is bittersweet," the president said.

Holder, who will stay on the job until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, was at his side.

"In good times and in bad, in things personal and in things professional, you have been there for me," he told Obama.

Indeed, over the course of six years on the job, Holder has had his ups and downs. He also has become a rare figure: a close Washington friend of the president.

As attorney general, Holder aggressively enforced the Voting Rights Act, addressed drug-sentencing guidelines that led to disparities between white and black convicts, extended legal benefits to same-sex couples and refused to defend a law that allowed states to disregard gay marriages. He oversaw the decision to prosecute terror suspects in U.S. civilian courts instead of at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and helped establish a legal rationale for lethal drone strikes on suspects overseas. All were Obama priorities.

He has also been Obama's point man in the federal response to the racial tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old African-American last month.

"His greatest legacy has been in the areas of civil rights and race," said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. He said Holder aimed for a frank discussion in the U.S. about issues surrounding race with a dialogue "that intrinsically defies completion and so remains unfulfilled."

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Loop Fans may remember back in July 2013 during one of those many periods when it appeared constantly embattled Attorney General Eric Holder was going to announce hed had enough we launched our When will Holder Resign? contest.

Most folks naturally predicted he would leave by the end of 2013. Some, including a former Holder aide, predicted he would announce his decision in early 2014.

Buta handful predicted Holderwould stay at least until the spring or fall of this year. And, as it turns out, they were right: Holder, the first African American attorney general and the fourth longest serving ever, announced his resignation on Sept. 25.

That made five people winners, all guessing within four months of the actual date.

1. David Cripe, an electrical engineer from Mount Vernon, Iowa was our top winner. Cripe predicted Holder would resign Nov. 1, 2014, missingthe actual resignation date by only five weeks.

2. A communications manager here in Washington (who asked not to be identified)predicted Holder would resign on Aug.1, so he was eight weeks early.

3. Annie Fields, of Marshfield, Mass., was only three months off. She predicted Holderwouldnt call it quits, until Christmas Eve this year.

4. Leslie Beil, an artist and freelance writer from Alexandria thought Holder wouldannounce a week later onNew Years Eve.

5. Michael Lebeau, a systems engineer from New Braunfels, Tex. was four months off, predicting Holder would hang it up in May.

Congratulations and official In the Loop T-Shirts to the winners and thanks to everyone for entering.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, Inspector General of the U.S. Department...

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