Eric Holder Impeachment Effort Launched by Conservatives

The American Conservative Union (ACU) is leading a campaign to impeach U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder due to his actions after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Gregg Keller of the ACU sent out a message to supporters on Thursday announcing the campaign.

Just days after a jury of his peers found George Zimmerman not guilty, Eric Holder was on the phone with far-left groups like the ACLU and NAACP, scheming to bring trumped-up hate crime charges against him, Keller wrote. This abuse of law is nothing new for Holder. And unless we stop it, he will continue to use his office to target innocent Americans.

Keller announced the ACU would be launching the Impeach Eric Holder campaign.

Attorney General Holder is supposed to be our nation's top law enforcement officer, but he's repeatedly thrown the law away for political reasons, Keller wrote. Keller noted Holders role in seizing records of a Fox News reporter, suing Arizona over its immigration law, standing in the way of state voter ID laws and covering facts related to Operation Fast and Furious in which a border patrol agent was killed.

We need to get rid of Holder as attorney general, Keller insisted.

The ACU will be gathering petitions demanding Holders impeachment and will be launching a new website and a social media campaign to further the efforts. Keller expressed little hope that Holder would be removed by Congress but added he believes President Barack Obama could bow to political pressure and fire him.