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Eugene

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Tue Mar 10, 2015, 06:24 PM Mar 2015

Loretta Lynch’s Long Wait May Soon Be Over

Source: TIME

Loretta Lynch’s Long Wait May Soon Be Over

Maya Rhodan 5:20 PM ET

Her nomination process has been one of the longest in recent history

The long-stalled confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch will soon be over. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate will hold a vote on whether to confirm Lynch next week, ending the over 100-day delay.

In February, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Brooklyn prosecutor’s nomination in a 12-8 vote. Three Republicans—Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona—joined all of the committee’s Democrats in supporting her then.

The vote came nearly a month after Lynch’s generally seamless confirmation hearing, which was peppered with questions about President Obama’s immigration executive action. And though Senators found little fault with her overall qualifications, her refusal to denounce the order that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the country temporarily without risk of deportation gave many Republican Senators pause.

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Read more: http://time.com/3739740/loretta-lynch-confirmation/
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