"The politically moderate blogger and law professor Ann Althouse, who voted for Barack Obama, wrote a reaction to a November 2009 Holder testimony before the Senate that could stand as a far broader condemnation of his qualities. Holder, she wrote, 'is utterly pathetic here. Either he knows damned well what he's doing and he's lying or he's outrageously unqualified for his job.'"

"Even Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the liberal New Republic and staunch Al Gore supporter, had seen enough of Eric Holder's embarrassing and abusive tenure, for multiple reasons. 'Poor Eric Holder,' Peretz wrote as the lead sentence of his blog, The Spine, that day. 'The fact is that he is none too smart…and none too versed in constitutional issues.'

And none too honest, either. But profoundly dangerous to the cause of equal justice."