Thursday, January 29, 2015
"...no senator should vote to confirm anyone for this position — the top law enforcement job in America — who supported the president’s unlawful actions,”
Testimony in the
confirmation hearings of Loretta E. Lynch wrapped up Thursday with
members of both parties praising her performance and with her winning
her first declared Republican supporter, Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah.
“The Justice
Department is in dire need of new leadership,” Mr. Hatch, a senior
member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement Thursday. “For
too long its decisions have been politicized and its leaders have
facilitated executive abuses by this president rather than upholding the
rule of law.”
He noted that Ms.
Lynch, in her meetings with senators and in her committee appearance on
Wednesday, “has demonstrated her qualifications and made specific
commitments to work with Congress.”
At the same time,
Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican who is expected to oppose
Ms. Lynch, said Thursday he would do so. He said that her view that the
legal rationale behind President Obama’s executive order on immigration
was sound had disqualified her.
“At the outset of this
nomination process, I said that no senator should vote to confirm
anyone for this position — the top law enforcement job in America — who
supported the president’s unlawful actions,” he said in a statement.
“Congress must defend its constitutional role, which is clearly
threatened.”
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