Senate opens hearings for Obama attorney general nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch promised a fresh relationship with law enforcement — and with Congress — at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday as she sought to become the nation's first black female to hold the post.
Lynch is widely expected to win confirmation but is likely to face tough questions from the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee in two days of hearings. Republicans clashed repeatedly with the outgoing attorney general, Eric Holder.
"I for one need to be persuaded Ms. Lynch will be an independent attorney general," Senate the committee chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said in his prepared statement Wednesday. "The attorney general's job is to represent the American people — not just the president and not just the executive branch."
Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, would replace Holder, who announced his resignation last fall after leading the Justice Department for six years. Holder has been a lightning rod for conservative criticism, clashing with Republicans and becoming the first sitting attorney general held in contempt of Congress
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Do you wonder what qualities she brings that 0bama desires in a Atty General?
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robert 12 minutes ago
Lynch also apparently views the death penalty as racist. She is cited as saying in a 2002 roundtable discussion that she had to repeatedly “explain decisions not to seek the [death] penalty” when she was a prosecutor. She claimed that the relative ease with which the death penalty was applied against blacks and Hispanics suggested a systematic disregard for minority citizens. Lynch would not apply the death penalty even if all of the “problems” with it could be fixed, according to the article, simply because of its supposed disparate impact on minorities: “You can be as fair as possible in a particular case, but the reality is that the federal death penalty is going to hit harder on certain groups.”
Z 28 minutes ago
Bankers everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Loretta Lynch the soon to be nation’s top lawyer won’t try to put any of them in jail.
Under Lynch’s oversight, the U.S. government allowed HSBC to pay a fine that amounted to five weeks of profit for the bank after they admitted to laundering $800 million for Mexican drug cartels. Lynch was also responsible for Citibank paying a $7 billion settlement-- $3.8 billion of which was later billed to U.S. taxpayers – rather than going to jail over misleading millions of investors about mortgage-backed securities that were doomed to fail.
Sam 17 minutes ago
If there is ever a mistake in a nomination it is this one! " Her office in New York is currently leading a civil rights investigation into the police choke hold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island last summer." This is a no no for me. She "also apparently views the death penalty as racist." To me she is another Eric Holder and a vote for her is a vote for the continuing of the same old policies that Eric Holder held!
robert
14 minutes ago
Lynch favors voter fraud.
In a speech at the Long Beach Martin Luther King Center in New York in January, Lynch claimed that efforts to improve the integrity of the election process were an attempt “to take back” what Martin Luther King, Jr. had fought for and that state legislatures were trying to “reverse” the gains made in voting. Lynch made it clear she approved of the Justice Department’s lawsuits against states such as North Carolina to stop voter ID laws and changes in early voting and same-day registration rules, saying such suits “will continue.”
She perhaps outholders Holder.
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