Posted on 11/08/2014 12:27:36 PM PST by jazusamo
A pair of Republican senators reiterated their call for President Obama's new nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to be taken up in the next Congress, rather than the lame-duck session.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have previously said they will oppose non-emergency business taken up when lawmakers return following Tuesday's election.
"President Obama’s Attorney General nominee deserves fair and full consideration of the United States Senate, which is precisely why she should not be confirmed in the lame duck session of Congress by senators who just lost their seats and are no longer accountable to the voters," the lawmakers said in a statement.
The two suggested, however, they could oppose Lynch's nomination regardless of the timing based on her position on Obama's forthcoming executive action on immigration. They said an attorney general must have a "full and complete commitment to the law."
"Loretta Lynch deserves the opportunity to demonstrate those qualities, beginning with a statement whether or not she believes the President’s executive amnesty plans are constitutional and legal," they said.
Republicans are slated to take control of the upper chamber when the new session begins in January. However, lawmakers will return for the final few months of businesses of the current session next week. Democrats have not yet outlined the timing for Lynch's confirmation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has also said the nomination should be handled in the next Congress.
A host of other nominations, a spending bill, and other legislation are already expected to be taken up in the lame duck.
Thanks for linking, saw that earlier. It pretty much says it all about Lynch.
I haven’t read that thread....and I’m here da and night!!
After Holder, the GOP should treat ANYBODY Obama nominates as unqualified for office. He wants to play hardball, then throw at his head.
They should treat this nomination is as if it were for the supreme court.
We just might see the real Obama emerge out of all this. It won’t be pretty.
Me too
The Constitution doesn’t limit the SCOTUS to nine members or set up all of the federal Judge tyrants that are busy wreaking havoc all over the land.
Congress can take out the Federal Judiciary in a New York Minute.
The three branches of Government are not co-equal.
Congress is the most powerful, followed by the Executive and then the Judiciary.
http://www.creators.com/conservative/joseph-farah/lesson-for-a-constitutional-scholar.html
You want to subvert the Constitution to get what you want.
That is a liberal trait.
/johnny
Well said, he appoints people for him and his agenda, not for the good of the country.
Me too... our conservatives have to start acting NOW, doing things EVERYDAY that Tuesday’s vote mandated. A thousand-point checklist, accomplish as many as possible by the end of each day and GET THE RESULTS IN THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA the same day.
That’s the only way to preserve the trust the electorate just handed us.
The IRS-Benghazi Congress (Weekly Update)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3224898/posts
Contrary to what Obama, Eric Holder and other leftist critics of voter identification requirements have said, a broad cross-section of Americans do not view the new state laws as unduly burdensome and discriminatory. In fact, a substantial majority of Americans ardently support new state laws that require voters to show some form of identification. That’s what the results of an election night survey of voters organized through The Polling Company Inc. shows. The poll, which was drawn from the responses of 806 actual 2014 voters, was released today by Judicial Watch and Breitbart.com
Going inside the results, we found that 76 percent of respondents agreed that “laws that require voters to present a photo ID before casting a ballot” to be “mostly fair.” Just 21 percent said it was “mostly unfair.” A total of 69 percent of Americans consider it “not a burden at all.” The results for minorities were particularly revealing. We found 45 percent of blacks and 51 percent of Hispanics consider voter ID “not a burden at all.” The race card played by the Obama administration against voter ID is so ludicrous that even minorities reject it.
Can’t fight a war with no weapons.
Do you really want to see marxists continue to use the Voter ID is disenfranchisement every election in order to commit election fraud?
That’s a prescription for losing the Republic
Enough is enough.
Finish them.
Bump
Don't like it? Change it. There's a Constitutional way to do that.
/johnny
And that is absolute BS. The States are enacting Voter ID, as it should be under the Constitution.
The Federal Government, without constraint of the Constitution, is a monster off the chain.
/johnny
Thus, I want her put up Monday morning, with her anti-ID bias and American Pro-ID mandate fresh in everybody’s memories and SHOOT HER DOWN.
The only way I see it is the little time left to vet and have hearings.
Also if 0bambam wants any bipartisanship at all (which I doubt) it’d really tick off of the majority in both houses for Reid to shove this down the Republicans throats now.
By the way McConnell vowed that if Reid pulled the nuclear option , the GOP would eliminate the filibuster for ALL nominees in the next session they had control, and that includes SCOTUS AND Legislation.
He must be held to his promise.
“The States are enacting Voter ID”
And what have all the Courts and the DOJ done? The State’s and their laws are for chumps. Courts and DOJ are the law today.
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