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.

[Menehune56]

Every single one of these backstabbers needs to be primaried and replaced.

[Amendment10]

Beware of the Senate! Since the corrupt, citizen-elected Senate approves of U.S. AG and justices, it’s no wonder that everthing that the Constitution-ignoring Senate does is “constitutional.”

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.

[Olog-hai]

And I don’t mean Cruz; I mean Kennedy, FTR.

[Vigilanteman]

Gee, I seem to recall that the same thing happened to John Ashcroft, the former Missouri senator who graciously yielded his seat after narrowly losing his re-election campaign to a dead man when a judge ordered the polls in St. Louis to stay open longer so that everybody could vote for a second or third time.

Anybody else remember that?

[smokingfrog]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4535287/sen-ted-cruz-nomination-loretta-lynch-attorney-general

[dfwgator]

The problem is they didn’t win in 2012.....And say what you will, does anyone think Romney would have chosen someone like this? That was the one and only reason I held my nose and voted for him.

[nickcarraway]

Everyone will miss Holder.

[Tupelo]

These are six real Profiles in Courage.
I guess.

[SeekAndFind]

Kelly Ayotte from the “Live Free or Die” State?

Well, apparently she chose die.

[Olog-hai]

More so. This is Holder’s next term.

[b4its2late]

Huge Mistake.

[SandRat]

The goa’ Ould Pres. wins

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thank you

[jimbo123]

[freedumb2003]

A racist inept lawyer, just like the predecessor — what could possibly go wrong?

[Hieronymus]

An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought.

[clintonh8r]

The usual suspects. When McCain sees how his girlfriend votes he’ll probably go that way too.

[Tucker39]

Woe unto those spineless squishes and assorted political prostitutes who voted to confirm this baby killer when they find themselves before the Final Judgement! And it goes without saying; Woe unto her, her chief executive all her other ilk, as well!

[gdani]

Are people actually surprised? I’m not sure why some people think the GOP will stand up to Obama (or for conservatism) on anything. How many more examples do people need?

[Olog-hai]

Not for the Uniparty.