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Obama to nominate US Attorney Loretta Lynch to replace Holder as AG
President Obama has chosen Loretta Lynch, the U S attorney in Brooklyn, N. Y. , as his nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder , ending widespread speculation over who might...
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President Obama has said hes confident that his nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder will get confirmed by the Senate.
But a look at where Loretta Lynch, the federal prosecutor out of Brooklyn, N.Y., has fallen on some of the more controversial issues dogging Holder for years suggests the confirmation process may be a bit bumpy. She and Holder seem to be eye-to-eye on many of the issues that made him such a lightning rod for Republican criticism.
Here are four issues that Senators including some Democrats -- will likely press her on:
Senate Republicans, including the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Charles Grassley, have long objected to the Obama administrations use of civilian courts to prosecute certain terror suspects, saying the prosecution-focused efforts of the FBI can fail to obtain valuable intelligence. Just three weeks ago, Grassley of Iowa, blasted the Obama administration over plans to transfer a terrorist held in Afghanistan for years to the United States for prosecution.
To give him the full set of rights that an American citizen is afforded when accused of a crime is a slap in the face to the men and women fighting abroad to keep us safe, Grassley said in a statement at the time.
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PHOTO: U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 8, 2014, after President Barack Obama nominated her to be the next Attorney General succeeding Eric Holder.
But Lynch like Holder has launched a strong defense of the civilian court system, calling it a proven and effective method of dealing with terrorism suspects and the best and often the only option for prosecuting U.S. citizens who have been radicalized.
We increasingly see the face of homegrown extremism as one of our own, who cannot be tried in a military commission. Federal courts have also established effective mechanisms to obtain cooperation from defendants, Lynch told attendees at an Agudah Israel legislative breakfast in November 2011. And I cannot underscore how important the cooperation and the intelligence that we gather from these suspects is in the fight against terror. Its the major advantage and difference from the commission system.
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4 Issues That Could Complicate Loretta Lynch's Confirmation
We were delighted when President Obama picked Loretta Lynch to succeed Eric Holder as the next attorney general.
In part its because her nomination offers Democrats and Republicans alike the opportunity to prove their commitment to both civility and the confirmation process.
In her time as the US attorney for New Yorks Eastern District, Lynch has won a number of high-profile corruption cases including that of former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. and Assemblyman William Boyland without grandstanding.
Her appointment comes at a time when newly ascendant Republicans and just-defeated Democrats are bitterly divided.
If there is any hope for a better working environment for his last two years in office, President Obama needs to make clear Lynchs confirmation hearings will occur in the incoming Republican Senate majority, not the outgoing, lame-duck Democratic one.
As former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch noted, No one has been nominated and confirmed to be attorney general in a lame-duck session since before the Civil War.
Republicans, too, need to show respect for the process. Given the importance of the attorney general, and a Holder record that included a finding of contempt, GOP senators have every right to get Lynch on the record on what she thinks of Holders record on issues from the Fast and Furious gun-running to the IRS Tea Party harassment.
Were confident Loretta Lynch can hold her own. And if the process is honest and open, her appointment could mean not only a new and better attorney general for America but a less poisonous Washington.
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President Obama is set to nominate veteran New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to succeed outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.
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