Meet Loretta Lynch
11/19/14
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from TIME Magazine,
11/13/14:
Everything you need to know about Obama’s Attorney General-in-waiting
CLAIMS TO FAME. Bill Clinton named Lynch to lead the Brooklyn U.S. prosecutor’s office in 1999.
CURRENT CHALLENGES. In upcoming confirmation hearings, the GOP will question Lynch on trying terrorists in U.S. courts.
BIGGEST CHAMPION. AG Eric Holder.
BIGGEST CRITIC. GOP Senator Ted Cruz.
CAN SHE DO IT? Lynch’s confirmation is unlikely to be derailed. Her real challenges will come as AG, when she must balance the demands of civil libertarians with ongoing national-security programs, cement Obama’s civil rights record and field calls for investigations from a Republican-controlled Congress..
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