{"id":8184,"date":"2015-02-13T01:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:25:56","slug":"ag-pick-lynch-forced-to-wait-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8184","title":{"rendered":"AG pick Lynch forced to wait … and wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The game-playing is continuing on Capitol Hill regarding one key appointment to President Obama’s Cabinet.<\/p>\n

It involves Attorney General-designate Loretta Lynch, who’ll now have to wait until Feb. 26 for the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on her nomination to run the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

What foolishness. What’s up with the newly empowered Republican Senate majority?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/02\/republicans-delay-loretta-lynch-confirmation-115149.html?hp=c3_3<\/p>\n

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Lynch wasn’t very responsive in answering the 200 or so written questions submitted by the panel. So he’s going to hold up the vote, even though virtually all the committee members’ minds are made up.<\/p>\n

Lynch likely has the votes on the committee to be confirmed. She surely has the votes of the full Senate.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the man GOP senators have come to loathe — Attorney General Eric Holder — remains on the job while Lynch is left twisting in the wind while the new Senate majority gets around to scheduling a vote to confirm her.<\/p>\n

Lynch, the current U.S. attorney for New York’s Eastern District, is highly qualified to become the next attorney general. Several key Republican senators already have declared their endorsement of the Democratic president’s nominee.<\/p>\n

Chairman Grassley, though, wants to drag it out some more — for reasons only he seems to get.<\/p>\n

Some GOP senators object to Lynch’s support of the president’s executive action on immigration — as if<\/em> they’d expect her to oppose the decision made by the man who has selected her to become attorney general.<\/p>\n

Do they actually expect her to oppose the president? Do they really and truly believe she should undercut the nation’s chief executive?<\/p>\n

Let’s take this vote, send it to the full Senate, then let all 100 senators\u00a0vote on Loretta\u00a0Lynch’s nomination.<\/p>\n

Shall we?<\/p>\n

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The game-playing is continuing on Capitol Hill regarding one key appointment to President Obama’s Cabinet. It involves Attorney General-designate Loretta Lynch, who’ll now have to wait until Feb. 26 for the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on her nomination to run the Justice Department. What foolishness. What’s up with the newly empowered Republican Senate majority? … Continue reading AG pick Lynch forced to wait … and wait<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[502,540,849,920,1617,2617,2827,4213,4214],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-attorney-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-capitol-hill","tag-charles-grassley","tag-eric-holder","tag-justice-department","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-senate-judiciary-committee","tag-senate-majority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}