Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder turned the Justice Department into an arm of the president’s political shop and was motivated mostly by politics, according to a recent survey influenced by his handling of the racially-charged Ferguson, Mo., police shooting.
Rasmussen Reports found in a late August poll that 54 percent of likely voters believed Justice was moved to make decisions based on politics.
Worse, just 35 percent thought Justice was out to make sure that justice was done.
Holder also made the department unloved by the nation. Rasmussen found that 53 percent view the nation’s legal and police office unfavorably. Just 38 percent had a “at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the Justice Department.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
