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

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

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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.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The Obama-Holder Department of Just Us and Our People set to “Lynch” whitey.

[Jagdgewehr]

Apparently, no one heard you. I guess they’re too busy trying to change the GOP from within. /s

[Nero Germanicus]

I expected her to get 51 votes and that five Republican RINOs would defect to ease her over the top. But I never expected ten Republicans, including the majority leader to side with Obama. Just wow.

[zzwhale]

money blackmail pork crony deals... business as usual and the public suffers as usual.....

[SZonian]

Well...

If memory serves, that’s what we were told...

“Get ‘em into office and once there, if they don’t do our bidding, we can hold their feet to the fire then.”

Sure is working out really well...not.

I swear, FR should view folks like that as the trolls that they are and zot their sorry asses for causing so much disruption and infighting...

[windsorknot]

Wow! We never saw this coming.

[puppypusher]

It’s so good to see that the Republicans surrendered again.Not.

We are so much in the crapper now and neither party is going to do a damned thing to get us out of this mess we’re in.

[Jagdgewehr]

I agree.

[Ray76]

Spot on, yet so many refuse to see it.

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THEY WANT TO BE LOVED BY THOSE DEMONCRAPS

[Politicalkiddo]

Tar and feathers.

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ping

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[sport]

I swear, FR should view folks like that as the trolls that they are and zot their sorry asses for causing so much disruption and infighting

It has my vote. it is for sure that they are not Conservatives.

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[sport]

She frankly admitted that she would not defend the Constitution and would selectively enforce the law. The peasants, serfs, and slaves [us] could go to hell. Just as Obama said, if elected, he would fundamentally transform [destroy] the United States, she was open as to what she would do.

[ctdonath2]

Irrelevant.
They DID win in 2014, and as such should in no way be approving this nomination - nor a host of other Leftist drivel.

[sport]

I do.

[SZonian]

Not really “all”...there were those who were “convinced” by the RINO GOP operatives and then there were those who KNEW what these communist allies of 0bama would do...

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