Headline Roundup March 21, 2015
Lynch Being Held "Hostage"?
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Washington Times
President Obama is accusing Congress of playing politics with law enforcement and national security by holding hostage attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch in exchange for leverage on legislation.
Mr. Obama blasted Republicans for preventing the female federal prosecutor from New York from succeeding Attorney General Eric Holder during his weekly address to the country to Sunday.
But lawmakers have delayed the nomination of Ms. Lynch by more than 130 days over concerns surrounding Mr. Obama’s executive action on immigration, which would provide temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants...
CNN Digital
There was a time when Republicans were eager to have Eric Holder gone from the Justice Department. That time isn't now.
GOP lawmakers began calling for the attorney general's resignation as early as 2011, and they even held him in contempt of Congress a year later.
Nowadays the issue keeping Holder in office has nothing to do with him, or Loretta Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney President Barack Obama picked to succeed him.
Instead it's a partisan fight
President Barack Obama chastised Senate Republicans on Friday for refusing to confirm his attorney general nominee, saying it's inexcusable to hold Loretta Lynch "hostage" as a bargaining chip for separate legislation.
"You don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues," Obama told The Huffington Post's Sam Stein in a sit-down interview. "This is our top law enforcement office. Nobody denies that she's well-qualified. We need to go ahead and get her done."
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