Eric Holder's Parting Shot: It's Too Hard To Bring Civil Rights Cases

Eric Holder's Parting Shot: It's Too Hard To Bring Civil Rights Cases Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government “a better backstop” against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin.