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Obama expected to nominate Loretta Lynch to be attorney general: CNN

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Who is she?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to pick Brooklyn prosecutor Loretta Lynch for his next attorney general, CNN reported on Friday, a move that would give the top U.S. law enforcement role to a low-key prosecutor with deep experience in both civil rights and corporate fraud cases.

Lynch, 55, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, would be the first African-American woman to hold the job if nominated by Obama and confirmed by the Senate.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama had yet to decide on his nominee. Asked about reports that a decision could come soon, he said he had no specific details on timing but that no announcement was planned on Friday.


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Obama expected to nominate Loretta Lynch to be attorney general: CNN
 
Get ready for a firestorm from the right wing congress. Or maybe they'll let this one slide so it won't be so obvious that they still will not work with the president.
 
Get ready for a firestorm from the right wing congress. Or maybe they'll let this one slide so it won't be so obvious that they still will not work with the president.

It will be hilarious if there is a firestorm.
 
Get ready for a firestorm from the right wing congress. Or maybe they'll let this one slide so it won't be so obvious that they still will not work with the president.

Do you suppose that Obama will wait for the new "right wing" Senate to be seated or perhaps let the "left wing" lame duck Senate handle this suddenly urgent matter? ;)
 
Get ready for a firestorm from the right wing congress. Or maybe they'll let this one slide so it won't be so obvious that they still will not work with the president.

So who is she? What are her credentials? Why is she the best person for this job?

The "right wing congress" isn't the subject of this thread.
 
Get ready for a firestorm from the right wing congress. Or maybe they'll let this one slide so it won't be so obvious that they still will not work with the president.

Why? If she is qualified, why shouldn't she be confirmed? Perhaps, just may be, we could move forward if both sides would quit acting all huffy and stopped grandstanding and assuming and falsely accusing.
It seems that, just like Obama is sharpening his executive pen, assuming that a mostly republican Congress can't come up with anything positive for America, many on the left are sharpening their tongues in defense of something that is mere anticipation.
 
So who is she? What are her credentials? Why is she the best person for this job?

The "right wing congress" isn't the subject of this thread.

Your article you posted answered a lot of those questions...
 
Does anyone else besides me know that the AG is conformed by the Senate? And that when Harry Reid changed the rules in 2013 it meant they only need a simple majority in the votes, and the GOP can't filibuster? All Reid has to do is push through the confirmation process.
 
She makes some scary (yet purposefully vague?) statements.

At the same event, Lynch gave a measured response to a question about the New York Police Department’s “Stop and Frisk” policy.

“I think it can be used and it can be misused. It’s a tool, just like anything else. It depends on who’s using it,” she said. “I think there’s a tendency in law enforcement that when something works, to put all the resources behind it. Sometimes there’s a lot of thought, and sometimes there’s not.”

That is a scary statement; it is not who is selected (or how?) to be stopped and frisked that matters here folks, but who is doing the stopping and frisking that counts. Hmm...

Obama said to favor Loretta Lynch for next Attorney General | MSNBC
 
So who is she? What are her credentials? Why is she the best person for this job?

Um.... didn't you read the part about how she is a black woman? In this administration, those are the credentials that she needs.



Remember, in order to make sure we carry forward the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, it's important that we continue to judge people based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character or their particular abilities to do a job well or impartially.
 
You need to ask?

I just thought that I would point this very opportune matter of timing out. ;)

EDIT: Using Harry Reid's (soon to disappear) demorat Senate majority.
 
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Does anyone else besides me know that the AG is conformed by the Senate? And that when Harry Reid changed the rules in 2013 it meant they only need a simple majority in the votes, and the GOP can't filibuster? All Reid has to do is push through the confirmation process.

Which I suspect will be the case...however, Harry is just stupid enough to make a fight of it. Were I strategizing for the Republicans I would make a minor fight of it while shrieking "see, they don't learn, they won't co-operate".

Then, when they start hammering the Dems with the Nuclear option Reid handed them they can say "we have no other alternative..."
 
So who is she? What are her credentials? Why is she the best person for this job?

The "right wing congress" isn't the subject of this thread.

Sounds like another Obama affirmative action appointment. If Lynch were a white male, Lynch wouldn't even be on Obama's radar screen.

>" Lynch, 55, is a longtime federal prosecutor who has the unusual distinction of serving in her current job twice: She was U.S. attorney for two years under President Bill Clinton, and was disappointed that she was not reappointed by President George W. Bush. Obama reappointed her in 2010...

Lynch has solid liberal credentials, having been associated with the Legal Aid Society in New York and the Brennan Center for Justice, named for former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., a liberal lion..."<

Brooklyn U.S. Atty. Lynch seen as a top choice for attorney general - LA Times
 
So who is she? What are her credentials? Why is she the best person for this job?

The "right wing congress" isn't the subject of this thread.

Here one of her qualifications.

"From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[6] She remained there until January 20, 2010"

Loretta Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like she'll be hard on the Fed...;)
 
Inb4 only reason she got the job is she's a woman/black. Edit: Way too late.
 
Do you suppose that Obama will wait for the new "right wing" Senate to be seated or perhaps let the "left wing" lame duck Senate handle this suddenly urgent matter? ;)

Umm.. you have to ask? The timing is interesting, isn't it? Let's wait until after the election, but before the new Senators are sworn in.
She makes some scary (yet purposefully vague?) statements.



That is a scary statement; it is not who is selected (or how?) to be stopped and frisked that matters here folks, but who is doing the stopping and frisking that counts. Hmm...

Obama said to favor Loretta Lynch for next Attorney General | MSNBC


Sure. If the Democrats are in charge, stop and frisk is just hunky dory, never mind the Constitutional issues. If Republicans are in charge, then it is obviously racist, as most of those being frisked are black.

Does anyone but me find it humorous that her name is Lynch?
 
Umm.. you have to ask? The timing is interesting, isn't it? Let's wait until after the election, but before the new Senators are sworn in.



Sure. If the Democrats are in charge, stop and frisk is just hunky dory, never mind the Constitutional issues. If Republicans are in charge, then it is obviously racist, as most of those being frisked are black.

Does anyone but me find it humorous that her name is Lynch?

Perhaps a key liberal SCOTUS justice may have a health or family issue that requires similar immediate attention. ;)
 
Umm.. you have to ask? The timing is interesting, isn't it? Let's wait until after the election, but before the new Senators are sworn in.



Sure. If the Democrats are in charge, stop and frisk is just hunky dory, never mind the Constitutional issues. If Republicans are in charge, then it is obviously racist, as most of those being frisked are black.

Does anyone but me find it humorous that her name is Lynch?

I have come to expect Obama's appointments to have names like kidkill.
 
Here one of her qualifications.

"From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[6] She remained there until January 20, 2010"

Loretta Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like she'll be hard on the Fed...;)

On the board of the FRB? :shock:

Hard on the Fed. BWAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAAHAHHA <splat>
 
Umm.. you have to ask? The timing is interesting, isn't it? Let's wait until after the election, but before the new Senators are sworn in.



Sure. If the Democrats are in charge, stop and frisk is just hunky dory, never mind the Constitutional issues. If Republicans are in charge, then it is obviously racist, as most of those being frisked are black.

Does anyone but me find it humorous that her name is Lynch?

I keep calling her "Loretta Lynn" but that's the coal miner's daughter.
 
Um.... didn't you read the part about how she is a black woman? In this administration, those are the credentials that she needs.



Remember, in order to make sure we carry forward the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, it's important that we continue to judge people based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character or their particular abilities to do a job well or impartially.



I have to try to retrieve this item from the local media.....we recently had a new appointment of a woman into a high court position. The article talked about her being a single mother, her work in family court, earning her law degree as a single mom.....

all impressive stuff.

What they never mentioned is she is an Indo-Canadian, of East Indian descent. Not even mentioned, and yet its a given in the US that Obama appoints based ion skin color your post can stand for so long completely unchallenged. It is that accepted by all that racial issues and racism runs deep in the American fabric to this day.

fact is, you're right too. and that's the saddest part
 
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