Eric Holder, who led the Department of Justice as attorney general under President Obama, criticized the Biden Justice Department’s approach to prosecuting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in an interview at the inaugural TIME Impact House in Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday. “To be frank, I think that the Justice Department could have done a better job,” Holder said, noting that the focus on members of the mob who stormed the building came at the expense of attempts to bring to justice the alleged architects of the plot, including former President Donald Trump. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In the wide-ranging interview, Holder, a leading advocate for the Democratic Party’s voting rights and redistricting efforts, also called on business to defend affirmative action practices and projected the odds of Trump being convicted before the 2024 election. In your recent book“Our Unfinished March,” you describe the moment when you went to Selma with President Obama and Rep.

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