After 110 days of waiting, President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, was confirmed by the Senate judiciary committee on Feb. 26.
Three Republican senators voted against party line to garner enough votes for Lynch, 12–8. Lynch has spent the past four years as the top federal prosecutor presiding over eastern New York City.
Dissenters notwithstanding, Republicans mostly took Lynch to task for supporting the legality of President Obama’s immigration executive action, which would provide temporary relief from deportation and work permits to roughly 5 million immigrants who are staying in the country illegally. Last week, a federal judge in Texas issued a temporary injunction to halt the president’s executive action.
