Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as next U.S. Attorney General

Los Angeles Times ^ | 04/23/2015 | TIMOTHY M. PHELPS

[SeekAndFind]

Loretta Lynch, after being kept waiting in the wings by the Senate for five and a half months, was confirmed Thursday as the first African American woman to serve as Attorney General.

Lynch was approved 56-43, one of the narrowest margins in history for an attorney general nominee.

The vote ended an unusually partisan episode in modern Senate confirmation history, in which a largely uncontroversial nominee to one of the top cabinet posts was kept out of office for a lengthy period over issues extraneous to her job.

[Red Badger]

[panaxanax]

Thank you for posting the names of the Republicans (traitors) that voted in favor of placing yet another one of 0bama’s anti-gun affirmative action idiots to a position of authority.

[Unmarked Package]

It was a spectacular speech by Ted Cruz on the Senate floor this morning delivering the case against Obama, Holder, and Lynch.

Must See TV >>> Sen. Ted Cruz Urges Colleagues to Oppose the Loretta Lynch Nomination

[WayneS]

The article says 10.

[Darksheare]

That it does.

[sport]

She has admitted that she would violate the law from day one. This is one more insult and screw you, we will do as we please and you, by god, will do as we say from the politicians. And if we take it, we deserve everything they do to us. It makes me sick.

[Ray76]

R’s just aren’t worth spit.

[WayneS]

I disagree.

[cornelis]

WI ping

[glennaro]

I agree. Even if their votes lean conservative, many still vote to retain the RINO GOPE leadership -- that is, the Democrat Socialists of the Right!

It's getting to the point that I'm thinking the Republican Party can "GOPE to hell"! -- The whole lot of them!

[william clark]

Not sure if all, but certainly most of the treasonous weasels from the Republican side have been in there long enough for their FBI files to have been among those obtained by Clinton and shared with the DNC, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a factor in their votes.

[jazusamo]

We knew the RINOs were going to back her but it doesn’t make her confirmation any easier.

We now have ANOTHER AG who puts herself and the lawless _resident 0bama above the law.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don’t have a problem with that.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/25/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html

[matthew fuller]

Isn’t it marvelous that we elected a Republican Senate?/s

[BigEdLB]

Cruz voted against cloture, and we all know where he stood. If there was a chance to stop her, he would have stayed...

[Sarah Barracuda]

10? Even worse..I already figured the usual circle of dummies..Ayotte, Graham, Kirk, McConnell..those are always a given

[dp0622]

I guess i’ll register as conservative and vote for Cruz for president.
Frankly, i don't care if he runs on the Conservative ticket and POs all republicans if he doesn't get the nomination.

[stephenjohnbanker]

We need a 5 million Man March on D.C. to purge the GOP.

[BitWielder1]

She will be every bit as bad as Holder.
What's the point of voting anymore?