President-elect Barack Obama plans to tap longtime lawyer Eric Holder to be attorney general, which would making him the first African-American ever in the post, according to several reports Tuesday.
Holder, who served as deputy attorney general under former president Bill Clinton, will head the Justice Department, reported Newsweek magazine's Michael Isikoff, citing legal sources close to the presidential transition.
Obama's transition team did not immediately comment on the report.
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