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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