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Obama Uses Weekly Address to Hammer GOP over Loretta Lynch Delay
President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation to hammer the Republican Party for delaying Loretta Lynch‘s nomination for Attorney General. Obama lauded Lynch, the current U.S. Attorney...
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Lindsey Graham Doesn’t Agree with His BFF John McCain on Halting Lynch Vote
There are only a handful of Republican senators publicly supporting Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General, Lindsey Graham among them. And Graham isn’t particularly happy that his colleagues are...
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Sharpton’s Group to Hold ‘Hunger Strike’ in Protest of Lynch Confirmation Stall
Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network is organizing a hunger strike to protest the continued stall on a confirmation vote for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. NAN released a statement today...
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Harry Reid Will Force Vote on Loretta Lynch if GOP Delays Any Longer
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) says he will force a vote on Loretta Lynch‘s attorney general nomination if it is delayed any longer by Senate Republicans, Mediaite has learned. Reid, the outgoing Senate...
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‘This Is Embarrassing': Obama Slams GOP for Delayed Loretta Lynch Vote
During a joint news conference on Friday with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, President Barack Obama forcefully blasted Senate Republicans for continuing to stall the confirmation vote of Loretta...
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Jeb Bush Thinks GOP Should Confirm Loretta Lynch, Show ‘Deference’ to Obama
President Obama is clearly pissed about how long it’s taking for the Republican-led Senate to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next Attorney General. Harry Reid said yesterday he will force a vote if...
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McCain: GOP’s Loretta Lynch Delay ‘Payback’ for Dems Using ‘Nuclear Option’
According to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Republicans are currently holding up Loretta Lynch‘s attorney general confirmation vote as “payback” for Senate Democrats invoking the so-called “nuclear option”...
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Oops: CNN Mixes Up DEA Chief with AG Nominee Loretta Lynch
Someone in the CNN control room prematurely jumped to a photo montage of yet-to-be-confirmed attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch on Tuesday afternoon while anchor Brooke Baldwin and reporter Evan...
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Senate Votes to Confirm Loretta Lynch after Months-Long Delay
The Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General, putting an end to protracted and unprecedented nomination battle. The vote was 56-43. Lynch was nominated by...
View ArticleTed Cruz Explains Skipping Lynch Vote After Months of Opposition
Loretta Lynch was finally, after a protracted stalemate, confirmed as Attorney General Thursday afternoon, in a vote of 56-43. Who skipped? Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who had vocally opposed Lynch for...
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Loretta Lynch: Rioters ‘Do a Disservice’ to Gray’s Family, Nonviolent Protesters
Newly-sworn in Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement on the violence in Baltimore last night, condemning the rioters for “doing a disservice” to the family of Freddie Gray and the...
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Cruz Defends Missing Lynch Confirmation Vote for Fundraiser: ‘Absence Is the...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is aware that the world thinks he’s an unprincipled hack for abstaining in the Loretta Lynch confirmation vote because the vote conflicted with a scheduled fundraising trip back to...
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Loretta Lynch Praises Police During Baltimore Visit
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is in Baltimore today and met with both the family of Freddie Gray and Baltimore police officers, whom she praised in comments to reporters earlier. Lynch was part of a...
View ArticleLoretta Lynch Issues Statement of Solidarity with Law Enforcement After...
In response to this weekend’s slaying of two police officers in Hattiesburg, Miss., U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch issued a statement expressing grief over their loss and reassuring law...
View ArticleLoretta Lynch on Tsarnaev: ‘The Ultimate Penalty is a Fitting Judgment’
Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement this afternoon on the jury’s decision to sentence Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. Here’s Lynch’s full statement: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev coldly...
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Loretta Lynch: We’ll Be ‘Less Safe’ If Patriot Act Expires
Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended U.S. surveillance programs today and said America could be “less safe” if the PATRIOT Act––specifically the provision that allows for the collection of phone...
View ArticleJeopardy! Contestants Can’t Name Loretta Lynch
Attorney General Loretta Lynch hasn’t been on the job very long, but the qualifications that got her appointed in the first place haven’t wowed a particular constituency: Jeopardy! contestants. The...
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Loretta Lynch Speaks on Police Shootings: ‘This Violence Against All of Us…...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivered some remarks today on the recent shooting of law enforcement officers and others all across the nation. From Charleston to Chattanooga to the WDBJ reporters to...
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FBI Director: U.S. ‘Not Aware’ of Credible Paris-Type Threat
FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that the U.S. is “not aware of a credible threat” of an attack on the homeland similar to the ones that occurred last week in Paris. Those coordinated attacks,...
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Loretta Lynch: Planned Parenthood Shooting Was a ‘Crime Against Women’
Attorney General Loretta Lynch put out a statement yesterday about the Planned Parenthood shooting, calling it “a crime against women.” Not much is known about the movies of the shooter, save for one...
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