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Omaha Steve

(99,632 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:16 PM Jun 2015

Obama praises Lynch as tough-but-fair attorney general

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising Attorney General Loretta Lynch for hitting the ground running as the American people's lawyer.

The president says Lynch is proving herself to be a tough but fair attorney general, and he says she sticks to following the law as her road map.

Obama made his remarks Wednesday at a second, ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Lynch at the Warner Theatre, not far from the White House.

Lynch was officially sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, but attorneys general often have a second swearing-in ceremony that more people can attend.

FULL story at link.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, second from left, next to President Barack Obama, participates in a formal investiture ceremony, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at the Warner Theatre in Washington. From left are, the president, the attorney general, her husband Stephen Hargrove, father Lorenzo Lynch, mother Lorine Lynch, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7ee518cc8c5245088bc81cb4ae184701/obama-praises-lynch-tough-fair-attorney-general

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Obama praises Lynch as tough-but-fair attorney general (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2015 OP

let's see what heaven05 Jun 2015 #1

Faithfully upholding Plucketeer Jun 2015 #2

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

1. let's see what

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:58 PM

Jun 2015

she's going to do about the civil and racial injustice and strife running rampant in this country between the privileged class need for comfort and lesser threat to that comfort and POC...

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)

2. Faithfully upholding

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:02 PM

Jun 2015

the DO-NOTHING tradition of the AG she replaces. Of course, this'll do great things for her resume, come January of 2017. That's when President Sanders will seat an AG that'll actually do the PEOPLE'S work - not that of Obama's corporate owners.

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