After a ridiculously lengthy delay, the United States Senate has voted to confirm Loretta Lynch as the nation’s Attorney General. She is the first black?woman to hold this title.
She was confirmed by a vote of 56 to 43. Most Repubilcans kept with their partisan ties, but 10 voted for Lynch. The delay in her confirmation vote was?one of the longest in cabinet history.
Most Republicans disdain the man Lynch will be replacing, Eric Holder, but still seemed apprehensive to even put the vote of Lynch on the table.
Some wanted to tie her vote to an unrelated sex trafficking bills, but many had concerns that she supports President Obama’s Executive Order on immigration.
Many Repubilcans have showed their true idiotic colors throughout this whole process. Senator (and Presidential candidate) Ted Cruz, has called Lynch “lawless.” This is obviously a political taking point based in nothingness considering her strong and prestigious career as an attorney.
Many Democrats, from those in the Senate to current Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have called out Repubicans for their egregious and partisan efforts to block such a qualified nominee and someone who would make great history for a nation with a lot of scars.
While a good outcome in the end with Lynch’s confirmation, the slow and pathetic process shines a light on just how partisan Republicans can be. It seems that they believe subjectivity in the law is only acceptable when those in the legal field agree with them. We see this all of the time with their bashing of “judicial activists”?who would dare use their platform to inject their political opinion. However, would they complain if the conservatives on the Supreme Court voted against marriage equality, something that would OBVIOUSLY be unconstitutional and has no legal basis whatsoever? Probaby not. Not most of them anyway.
I am very happy that Loretta Lynch has achieved such a high position. I just wish this delay had never happened, for it illustrates an ongoing problem with political partisanship and Republican idiocy.
