{"id":17705,"date":"2014-09-25T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-25T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:09:53","slug":"Kamala-Harris-to-replace-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17705","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris to replace Attorney General Eric Holder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among the potential candidates the White House is considering to replace Eric Holder Jr. as attorney general are<\/strong> Donald Verrilli Jr., the current U.S. solicitor general; <strong>Kamala Harris, California\u2019s attorney general<\/strong>; and Sheldon Whitehouse, a two-term Democratic senator from Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials have known about Holder\u2019s plans to step down for months, but the decision wasn\u2019t finalized until Holder and President Obama discussed it in a one-on-one conversation over Labor Day weekend. As recently as this August, Obama was still trying to persuade Holder to stay, according to a source familiar with the conversation. While vacationing around the same time on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Obama gently pressured Holder to rethink his plans to retire, even waxing nostalgic about the heady days of the 2008 campaign when the two men cemented their personal friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Obama knows that getting a new attorney general confirmed by the Senate \u2014 which could possibly be controlled by the Republicans come January \u2014 will be challenging, particularly deep in the second term of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials have been quietly vetting potential candidates for months, according to knowledgeable sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California and a rising star in Democratic politics, is also considered a serious contender, should she be interested in the job.<\/strong> But Harris, a former district attorney in San Francisco, may have other political ambitions, such as running for the U.S. Senate or eventually for governor of California.<br 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