Eric Holder's political justice

Upon Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation last week, NBC’s Chuck Todd made an odd comment: “[W]hat’s interesting about him, he is a very non-political person.”

There may be merit to saying Holder has been more ideological than political, but it still seems like a strange thing to say about him. After all, his most famous act before his tenure as Attorney General had been to help arrange President Bill Clinton’s highly unusual and controversial last minute pardon of a wanted fugitive — mega-donor and billionaire Marc Rich. Holder not only recommended the pardon (calling himself “neutral leaning favorable”) but was also careful not to inform his colleagues at the Clinton Justice Department until it was too late to stop it.