Loretta Lynch’s nomination for U.S. attorney general moved forward last week on Capitol Hill, where the full Senate is expected to take up a vote soon. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 26 voted, 12-8, to send Lynch’s nomination to the full Senate. Three Republicans — Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Jeff Flake, R-Arizona — joined the committee’s nine Democrats to send the nomination out of the committee. At the start of the committee meeting, Hatch made pointed remarks to Republican colleagues who invoked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration as reason to vote against Lynch.
“She is well qualified to be attorney general and her record does not include anything sufficient to overcome the presumption in favor of confirmation,” Hatch said. “The case against her nomination as far as I can tell essentially ignores her professional career.”
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