re: Did Holder's "I'm a black man" comments arguably violate Ethics rules?

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(f) Except for statements which are necessary to inform the public of the nature and extent of the prosecutor’s action and which serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose, make extrajudicial comments which serve to heighten condemnation of the accused

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This is the rule for prosecutors for those licensed to practice law in the Wash D.C. AG Eric Holder's defenders will tell us all that we should ignore this rule when we analyze Holder's racial statement. They say that technically, it doesn't apply because Holder is not a prosecutor. No, he technically is not, but, he supervises and manages prosecutors.

Common sense tells us all that Holder chose his words poorly and could have helped the situation without injecting race into his comments

I submit that a wise, thoughtful, careful AG with good judgment would have chosen different words. Holder was not at his best on that day. The fact that not a single Democrat will ever admit this is a good demonstration of the lengths that Democrats will go to defend their own, no matter what.

As another poster thankfully pointed out to us -- this little goof is not the worst that we've gotten from Holder. He will have to defend his license to practice law for other misdeeds.

But, we will find not the slightest criticism from the Democrats for anything that Holder does, because he is their ideological warrior that's what's most important to the Democrats who say: Notions of right and wrong be damned, as long as the Democrat side WINS.

This is not the right way for the US Attorney General to conduct himself. Holder is smart enough to do much better, and, I hope he does.