Attorney General Eric Holder gave Democratic senate candidate Elizabeth Warren a shout-out at the Harvard University Law School commencement ceremony yesterday.
Holder hailed Warren when describing the students’ experience at the law school. “In addition to surviving Professor Warren’s merciless questioning – an experience I may soon share with you, if she becomes a member of the Senate next year – many of you have taken ‘evidence’ from Professor Nesson – a class that I understand is co-taught by a Yorkie named Sweetpea,” he said, according to prepared remarks.
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Holder has faced a great deal of tough questioning in the last several months about the Justice Department’s handling of Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-walking scheme that resulted in the death of an American border patrol agent.
“I understand that for some everything is a political exercise,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. said of Holder’s DOJ on the House floor last week. “But, surely, the Department of Justice can rise above petty, partisan politics and comply with a subpoena.”
Warren, as Holder acknowledges, is challenging Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., in Brown’s first campaign since replacing the late Ted Kennedy in a 2009 special election. Her campaign has been swamped lately with charges that she described herself as a Cherokee Indian, despite a lack of evidence for that heritage, in order to benefit from Harvard’s affirmative action policies in the early 1990s.
