Headline Roundup • April 23rd, 2015
Lynch Confirmed
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Wall Street Journal (News)
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general, voting 56-43 to approve her for the nation’s top law-enforcement job at a time of intense national debates about police conduct, government surveillance and how to fight the threat of terrorism.
More than five months since she was nominated in early November, Ms. Lynch was confirmed as the first black woman to hold the job of the nation’s top law-enforcem
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Loretta Lynch was confirmed as U.S. attorney general on Thursday after months of GOP delays, making history by becoming the first African-American woman to hold the post.
Lynch was confirmed in the Senate 56 to 43. All Democrats voted for her, along with 10 Republicans: Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
Senators were on track to approve Loretta Lynch to be the new attorney general, defeating an early filibuster attempt Thursday morning, with a final vote scheduled later in the afternoon on what Democrats said was a major civil rights milestone.
Ms. Lynch, a federal prosecutor in New York, would replace Eric H. Holder Jr. and would be the country’s first black woman to reach the top law enforcement post.
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