Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sen. Durbin: Loretta Lynch Being Asked to ‘Sit in the Back of the Bus’ (Watch)

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch testifies during a confirmation hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee January 28, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch testifies during a confirmation hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee January 28, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Lynch will succeed Eric Holder to be the next U.S. Attorney General if confirmed by the Senate.

*”Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

President Barack Obama nominated Lynch in November, but she has been waiting months for her confirmation vote. She’s waited more than three times as long as it took the Senate to confirm Attorney General John Ashcroft under President George W. Bush, and twice as long as it took the Senate to confirm current Attorney General Eric Holder.

As other Democrats have been saying for weeks, Durbin said there’s no reason for the delays, and suggested Republicans are on the wrong side of civil rights history.

It “is unfair. It’s unjust. It is beneath the decorum and dignity of the U.S. Senate.”

Watch below:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) originally said last week that he’d give Lynch a vote this week. But he changed his tune this week, saying he would hold off on scheduling her vote until after the Senate finishes its work on a human trafficking bill. That bill is mired in controversy and going nowhere at the moment, which means Lynch’s nomination isn’t moving either.

At an event later Wednesday, Holder noted that delays on Lynch mean that he stays in office even longer, which is ironic given how often some in the GOP have said they want him gone.

“It’s almost as if the Republicans in Congress have discovered a new fondness for me,” Holder joked. “Where was all this affection the last six years?”

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