Eric Holder: Attorney General for life?

There was a time when Republicans were eager to have Eric Holder gone from the Justice Department. That time isn't now.

GOP lawmakers began calling for the attorney general's resignation as early as 2011, and they even held him in contempt of Congress a year later.

Nowadays the issue keeping Holder in office has nothing to do with him, or Loretta Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney President Barack Obama picked to succeed him.

Instead it's a partisan fight