Eric Holder will be remembered for his work on LGBT rights

Earlier this year, Jeffrey Toobin, the legal correspondent for The New Yorker, profiled Attorney General Eric Holder — and reported that Holder would step down this year. He was right. Today, news broke that Holder will leave the Department of Justice as soon as President Obama finds a replacement.

Toobin has described Holder as having "two tenures" as attorney general. In a phone conversation today, he described them to me.

Ezra Klein: What's the single most important thing Eric Holder did as attorney general?

Jeffrey Toobin: I think throwing the...