Posted on 11/06/2014 10:14:46 AM PST by ryan71
NEW YORK She's an under-the-radar contender to become the first black woman to head the Justice Department.
Loretta Lynch rarely holds news conferences, does interviews or gives speeches in her current job as U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. But the lack of a paper trail on Lynch hasn't kept her from emerging in recent weeks as one of only a handful of people still under consideration by the White House to replace the outgoing Eric Holder as attorney general.
The buzz over the 55-year-old Harvard Law School graduate was apparent as she sat next to Holder for his appearance at a ceremony last week in Brooklyn highlighting efforts to divert low-level offenders into drug rehab and job diversion programs, one of the attorney general's pet causes. In her introduction of Holder before an audience that included U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan considered another attorney general contender a judge made clear who she favors for the job.
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I wish you had beaten me to it. The pictures are priceless!
Black and female are the only factors that matter in Washington today.
Haaaaaaarard is another factor. If you are from any progressive Ivy league college and are a lefty - you are in!
Didn’t I see her on a cereal box when I was a kid?
Was it Cocoa Puffs or Alpha Bits?
That's how it has always worked in big Democrat cities' mayoral elections.
You mean like Vice President for Community and External Affairs?
That's 2 out of 3. It helps to be liberal, too. Wanna bet she's a political junkie and legal activist?
Her father was a Baptist minister.
More accurate.
we may never see a white Christian man again as AG...talk about flavor of the month...
HAHA, I also thought it was a picture of Al dressed in drag for the Gay Pride Parade.
Josh....Earnest....?
Loretta ...LYNCH??
where does he find these people.??
to become the first black woman
Blah blah blah
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