LORETTA LYNCH

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LORETTA LYNCH

• Served as a U.S. Attorney under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
• Believes that the American criminal-justice system is rife with discrimination against nonwhite minorities
• Favors the use of alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders
• Supports the restoration of voting rights for convicted felons who have completed their prison sentences

 

Loretta Lynch was born in 1959 in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1981 she earned an A.B. from Harvard College, where she was an original member of Delta Sigma Theta, a newly formed African-American sorority chapter; another noteworthy original member was Sharon Malone, who subsequently went on to marry Eric Holder.

 

After completing her undergraduate studies, Lynch in 1984 earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Black Law Student Association. From 1984-90 she was a litigation associate for the New York-based firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel.

 

In 1989 Lynch donated $550 to the New York City mayoral campaign of Democrat David Dinkins, who defeated both the incumbent Ed Koch (in a five-way Democratic primary) and Republican challenger Rudolph Giuliani (in the general election).

 

From 1990-2001, Lynch worked

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Eric Holder’s Perfect Successor
By John Perazzo
November 11, 2014

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/eric-holders-perfect-successor/

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Questions for Marco Rubio about Loretta Lynch

Paul Mirengoff

January 7, 2015

 

Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, is making the rounds on Capitol Hill in advance of her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. With the GOP now in control of the Senate, she will need some Republican support. But with the elimination of the filibuster in this context, only a few Republican defectors will be required.

 

They probably will be easy to find. Lindsey Graham, true to his role as the Arlen Specter of the South, has already expressed his predisposition to vote for confirming Lynch. More surprisingly, perhaps, so too has Marco Rubio.

 

I have two questions for Senator Rubio. First, would he vote for Lynch if he believed that she will be essentially indistinguishable from Eric Holder as Attorney General? Second, if not, what is his basis for believing that Lynch will be different from Holder?

 

The evidence strongly suggests that there is no meaningful distinction between Lynch and Holder. I summarized it here and here.

 

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Questions for Loretta Lynch

Paul Mirengoff

January 10, 2015

 

George Will offers a list of questions he thinks Senators should put to Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General. The purpose of the questions, Will says, is to “highlight festering legal problems.”

 

The first question pertains to attempts by the federal government to “coerce colleges and universities into jettisoning crucial defendants’ protections when adjudicating, in improvised tribunals, accusations of sexual assault.” The question is well worth asking if for no other reason than to see how well Lynch balances her desire to support the left’s assault on due process in these cases with the need to give lip service to the rights of accusees, so as to satisfy Republican Senators.

 

But Lynch has already demonstrated a lack of appreciation for the rights of those accused of sexual assault. In response to a question about Michael Nifong’s conduct towards Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of such assault, Lynch failed to denounce Nifong’s abuses.

 

Most of Will’s other questions stem from his view (misguided in part) that the criminal justice system is too tough on criminals and criminalizes too much behavior. These questions could also pose a problem for Lynch.

 

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