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By Jim Acosta, Senior White House Correspondent
updated 12:13 PM EDT, Tue October 14, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- The sure-to-be politically fraught nomination process for Eric Holder's replacement as attorney general will come after next month's midterm elections, the White House said on Tuesday.
An official, speaking anonymously about the nomination process, said Senate Democrats urged the White House to wait until after November's contests to put a nominee forward to head the Justice Department. Democrats are urgently working to maintain control of the Senate, and are expected to lose seats in the Republican-controlled House.
Holder, the last of President Barack Obama's original cabinet members, was a politically divisive attorney general, and the fight to replace him is expected to be rancorous on Capitol Hill.
A nominee could be pushed through a lame duck session after the midterm elections, though other issues on the congressional docket -- like authorizing Obama's use of force in against ISIS -- are expected to dominate proceedings in November and December.
"I do anticipate that Democrats will hold the Senate," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters after Holder resigned. "That said, I also anticipate that whoever the nominee is will earn and ultimately receive bipartisan support."
Democrats close to the nominating process have floated several names as potential Holder replacements: the current Labor Secretary Tom Perez, the former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler are all considered in the mix.
Others include U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and former Justice Department official Tony West.
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White House: No Holder replacement until after midterms
WASHINGTON - The sure-to-be politically fraught nomination process for Eric Holder's replacement as attorney general will come after next month's midterm elections, the White House said on Tuesday.
An official, speaking anonymously about the nomination process, said Senate Democrats urged the White House to wait until after November's contests to put a nominee forward to head the Justice Department. Democrats are urgently working to maintain control of the Senate, and are expected to lose seats in the Republican-controlled House.
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Holder, the last of President Barack Obama's original cabinet members, was a politically divisive attorney general, and the fight to replace him is expected to be rancorous on Capitol Hill.
A nominee could be pushed through a lame duck session after the midterm elections, though other issues on the congressional docket -- like authorizing Obama's use of force in against ISIS -- are expected to dominate proceedings in November and December.
"I do anticipate that Democrats will hold the Senate," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters after Holder resigned. "That said, I also anticipate that whoever the nominee is will earn and ultimately receive bipartisan support."
Democrats close to the nominating process have floated several names as potential Holder replacements: the current Labor Secretary Tom Perez, the former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler are all considered in the mix.
Others include U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and former Justice Department official Tony West.
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No Holder replacement until after midterms
Eric Holder and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) may seem like polar opposites, but the outgoing U.S. Attorney General said this week that he and the libertarian-leaning senator have a surprising amount of views in common.
Speaking by phone Tuesday with MSNBC, Holder talked about his various priorities, including fighting strict state voter ID laws and restoring voting rights to felons. On the latter issue, in particular, Holder had some praise for Senator Paul: We agree on more things than people would expect.
Indeed, Sen. Paul has been among a handful of Republicans to join Holder in calling for an end to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, decrying the militarized police response to Ferguson, Mo., protests in August, and dismissing the GOP push for stricter voter ID laws as a waste of effort.
The potential 2016 candidate recently visited Ferguson for a listening session with local black leaders, a move that many consider to be another one of the his attempts to reach out to people infamously underrepresented in his party.
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