Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch to Make History If Confirmed
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US Dept. of Justice(WASHINGTON) — President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, faces tough Senate questioning as she begins two-days of confirmation hearings before Senate Judiciary.
While Lynch is expected to win confirmation, she’s the first Obama Cabinet nominee to appear before a Republican-led committee as she seeks to become the first black woman to hold the nation’s top law enforcement job.
Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, would replace Eric Holder, who announced his resignation last fall.
A Justice Department staffer tell ABC’s Mike Levine that while Lynch testifies, she’ll have a Navy Seal trident pin on the table in front of her. It’s her brother’s — a former Seal who died in 2009 and it’s there “in order to feel her late brother’s presence at the hearing.”
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