Posted on 11/13/2014 3:05:07 PM PST by Maceman
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said Thursday he believes U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch will get approved by the Senate to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, but that the confirmation process should wait until after the new Senate has taken office in January.
“Looking at it, I have to say, she looks like she will be a good person,” said Hatch on the Steve Malzberg Show. “But I think the newly-elected senators on both sides should have the privilege of voting for or against her — and I think most of them will probably vote for her. And it ought to be done in a way that has always been followed, since the Civil War.”
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Don’t have to die on this hill, just kept mouths shut until the confirmation hearings and get her on the record, ask her detailed questions about what, if any, legal authority she sees for various Obama executive orders, carried out or contemplated. And other legal questions.
Get that discussion out to as much of the public as might follow the hearing. No point in mushes like Hatch confirming her before we even have the hearing. Dumb.
That’s the GOP we all grown to know and despise. Not even fighting words anymore.
I’ll sign on to that.
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