The attorney general, who became an icon to liberals but a divisive figure to many conservatives, will step down once a successor is confirmed.

Eric Holder Stepping Down As Attorney General Holder, who has held the post since President Barack Obama took office in 2008, will announce his decision late Thursday afternoon, a Justice ...

Holder plans to step down once a successor is named. — -- Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African-American to be the nation's top cop, announced today that he is resigning. President ...

Attorney General Eric Holder – the first and only sitting Cabinet member in 225 years to be cited for contempt of Congress – has politicized the United States Department of Justice to the ...

WASHINGTON — Now that Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he will resign, the challenging task of finding a replacement who can win Senate confirmation begins for President Obama. Holder ...

UPDATE (5:00 p.m.): President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder formally announced Holder's intention to resign on Thursday afternoon in a joint and at times emotional appearance at the White ...

Eric Holder's testy testimony to Congress this week has underscored just how precarious it is to be the U.S. attorney general.

Eric Holder on 'Demanding Job' of Being US Attorney General Holder spoke to ABC News' Pierre Thomas about the family sacrifices he's made while serving in the Obama administration.

When Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that he would leave the administration as soon as a successor was confirmed, speculation about his replacement quickly reached a fever pitch ...

Attorney General Eric Holder — a native New Yorker and the first African-American to hold the post — is resigning after heading the Obama administration’s Justice Department during a rocky ...

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the National Association of Attorneys General Winter Meeting. He urged attendees to work together to allow ex-convicts to regain the right to vote. He also ...

The nation's first black U.S. attorney general had a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, sentencing reforms and battles with congressional Republicans.