Eric Holder
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Former Attorney General Holder Discusses Tuesday’s Election · 4 Nov 2025
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that we on the progressive side, on the Democratic side, have got to get used to.
It's not a bad thing for us to say that we want to acquire and use power.
Doesn't mean we're going to use it in the same way that Republicans and conservatives had in the negative way that they have done it.
But Roosevelt wasn't afraid of acquiring and using power.
Johnson wasn't afraid of acquiring and using power.
That's what we have to be about.
And so fighting back
The way in which Governor Newsom has folks in California by putting together Prop 50 is exactly what we have to do.
We've got to fight for this.
No, that's exactly right.
I mean, the Justice Department has the power to send out these monitors.
And traditionally, under Republican as well as Democratic attorneys general, you'd send out monitors to places where you were concerned about compliance with the Voting Rights Act, had some basis to believe there might have been some issues around voting procedures.
They're not sending monitors to California, and this particular monitor to California, for any of those concerns.
They're trying to send that person out there to somehow potentially intimidate people, to somehow call into question what I think is going to be a victory by the proponents of Proposition 50.
They're just trying to lay a predicate for the ways in which they'll try to challenge the validity of the vote coming out of California.
Well, there's a whole litany of things that we ought to be concerned about with regard to what this administration is doing.
But I gotta say, chief among them should be the way in which they politicize the Justice Department.
The Justice Department has enormous amounts of power.
The Justice Department has the ability to put people in jail, to separate people from their property.
And if you politicize the Justice Department, if you weaponize the Justice Department to go after the perceived enemies of the president, and these are people who just simply have policy differences with the president, that is a frightening thing.
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