Obama-Holder friendship at the heart of their partnership
Posted on AllSides September 28th, 2014
From The Left
It was Super Bowl halftime when Eric H. Holder Jr. buttonholed President Obama at a White House viewing party in 2011. But the attorney general did not want to talk about the game; he wanted to talk shop.
Holder informed his boss that he was prepared to recommend that the administration no longer defend a federal law defining marriage as between a man and woman because it was unconstitutional. Obama replied that he had reached the same conclusion.
Justice Department colleagues who heard Holder describe the conversation said the moment
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