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Attorney General Eric Holder smiles during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, on Nov. 3, 2014.

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By Colin Daileda2015-01-28 19:12:31 UTC

United States Attorney General Eric Holder will soon be on to his next job presuming his potential replacement, Loretta Lynch, survives confirmation hearings before Congress this week.

Those hearings are expected to force Lynch to differentiate herself from Holder, who has acquired plenty of detractors since he landed the nation's top law enforcement job nearly six years ago.

Many of those detractors will have a say in how the Lynch hearings are carried out. We've listed some of the biggest Holder haters below:

Many GOP legislators have developed a deep dislike of Holder over the years, and were keen to criticize the attorney general when he announced last September that he would resign as soon as a replacement was confirmed.

Republican lawmakers have criticized Holder for not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, for trying to close the prison at Guantanamo, for obtaining the phone records of reporters and for mishandling a gun program run by federal agents in which the agents attempted to monitor illegal weapons after they were sold in Mexico, but didn't keep tabs on those weapons.

Holder allegedly did not share documents from the program with Congress, and GOP lawmakers voted to hold the attorney general in contempt.

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Holder's haters: outgoing attorney general has had many detractors