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GOP Sen. Brown calls for Holder to resign
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, ahead of a vote in the House to hold the Justice Department chief in contempt of Congress.
"He can't effectively serve the president," Brown said Wednesday on a local Boston-area radio program, "Nightside With Dan Rea," as first reported by the Boston Herald.
Brown is the latest in a growing number of GOP lawmakers calling on the attorney general to step down in the wake of congressional investigations into the ATF’s botched Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Last week, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said lawmakers had “reached the point of no return” and that Holder had no choice but to leave office.
The House Oversight Committee voted last week along party lines to recommend a contempt citation for the embattled attorney general, claiming he failed to respond to a subpoena for documents related to the Fast and Furious probe. The vote by the House is expected on Thursday.
Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has accused the administration of obstructing the investigation after President Obama asserted executive privilege last week to withhold documents on the DOJ operation.
Democrats, though, accuse the House GOP of using the probe to score political points and embarrass Obama and Holder.
Brown repeated calls for the administration to turn over documents requested by House GOP lawmakers. “There should be a full and fair exchange of information so we can get to the bottom of it,” he said.
The Republican senator is locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, who quickly blasted his stance, saying the attacks on Holder were “all about politics.”
“The Republicans think they’ve got something here, and he’s just trying to see if he can turn up the temperature on it. I think this is why people get disgusted by politics,” she said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.”
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