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Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that even though he has been living outside of politics since leaving the Department of Justice more than two years ago, he is looking to get back into the political fray.

"Up to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes," said Holder in an interview with Yahoo News. "But that's about to change. I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general."

He added: "There's a justified perception that I'm close to President Obama. So, I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country."

In the past few months, Holder has been working as outside counsel to the California legislature and other Democrats to undercut President Trump's policies in the state.

However, Holder lives and works in Washington, D.C. as a partner at Covington & Burling.

Holder explained he expected to stay out of politics since leaving the Obama administration but the 2016 election results changed his mind.

"I thought frankly, along with everybody else that after the election, with Hillary Clinton as president, I could walk off the field," he said. "So when she didn't win, I thought, We'll have to see how this plays out.'"

"But it became clear relatively soon and certainly sooner than I expected that I had to get back on the field and be in effective opposition," Holder elaborated in the interview, published Tuesday.

Holder said he will join efforts with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a new group backed by Obama to prepare Democrats for 2020 and districting redrawing in which he will "be more visible."

"We have come too far as a nation, sacrificed too much, made too much progress, to allow the state of our nation to be undermined by the extreme part of a divided minority administration," Holder said, calling Trumpism "the worst of us."

"If opposition is to be the course and it must be we must recognize and remember that the power of the American people has been too often underestimated. Once roused we are a mighty force," he said.

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