Covington’s Eric Holder to Conduct Equity Audit on Kamala Running Mates

Former attorney general Eric Holder, now a senior counsel at the white shoe law firm Covington & Burling, is taking a break from conducting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” audits for major corporations to vet Kamala Harris’s potential running mates.

Holder, who charges corporations over $2,000 an hour to assess their racial inclusivity, was enlisted on Monday to vet potential vice presidential nominees {snip}

Harris’s selection of Holder to oversee the first major undertaking of her short-lived presidential campaign suggests the man who held down the left flank of the Obama administration, particularly its race-focused legal policies—and has devoted much of his time since leaving office to battling “voter suppression”—is poised to play a key role in the campaign.

Holder, who served seven years as Obama’s attorney general, was the president’s hardline enforcer of policies that focused on protecting and expanding the power of minority groups who tend to support Democrats. During his tenure, the government aggressively sued to block state efforts to fight voter fraud, claiming these laws were designed to suppress minority voting. Holder’s Justice Department also successfully sued to block much of Arizona’s landmark 2010 immigration law, SB 1070, that at the time was the broadest and strictest immigration law in the country. Holder has committed himself to immigration reform which he describes as a matter of civil and human rights.

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The Washington Free Beacon reported last year that an “equity audit” Holder conducted for the coffee giant Starbucks led to a lawsuit from shareholders over some of the race-based employment programs the former attorney general endorsed.

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