Confirmation clash: Top Senate Republicans say they expect Loretta Lynch, whose confirmation hearings begin Wednesday, to be confirmed, POLITICO reports in this curtain-raiser. The Washington Post’s preview: “After forging her path from N.C. to Brooklyn, Lynch is poised to become attorney general.” New York bar groups on Monday filed letters in support of Lynch, The New York Law Journal reports.

Sen. Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday evening released the witness lineup. Among the witnesses scheduled to testify: former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson; Georgetown University Law Center professor Nicholas Rosenkranz; and Jonathan Turley, who teaches at George Washington University Law School. Bloomberg writes here about the witness list.

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