I PRAY CERTAIN JELLY-BACK DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE THE JELLY OUT OF THEIR BACKS AND STAND UP AGAINST PARTISAN AND RACIST ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. ATTY. GENERAL NOMINEE, ATTY. LORETTA LYNCH. DEMOCRATS, IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, STAND FOR YOUR OWN PARTY AND DEMOCRATIC U.S. PRESIDENT! AS MANY REPUBLICANS SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS, DEMOCRATIC WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING CONTINUE TO BITE THEIR LARGEST CONSTITUENTS, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND THEIR NEED FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. HERE WE GO AGAIN... Right-wing media outlets are criticizing Loretta Lynch, the highly-qualified attorney that President Obama has nominated to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, by attacking her support of voting rights litigation and claiming her membership in one of the countrys leading African-American sororities is controversial. On September 25, Holder announced that he would step down as attorney general, but would stay in office until his replacement was confirmed. The president nominated Lynch to the post on November 8, citing her extensive legal experience and stating that its pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than Loretta. Even conservative figures appear to agree, with Republican Senator Lindsay Graham calling her a solid choice. News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch echoed Grahams sentiment, noting that the nominee has a reputation for fairness and strict legality. Lynch is a Harvard Law graduate, has decades of experience as a successful and widely praised federal prosecutor, and has served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York since 2010, when she was confirmed by unanimous consent. But after Obamas announcement, conservative media ignored her qualifications and began to attack Lynch anyway, falsely accusing her of partisanship. Breitbart was so eager to find fault in her nomination that it went after the wrong Lynch, erroneously claiming that she was involved in former President Bill Clintons defense during the Whitewater investigation in 1992. In reality, it was a different attorney named Loretta Lynch who defended the president during the probe that cleared the Clintons; the current nominee Lynch was serving in the U.S. attorneys office at the time. The attacks have continued even after Breitbart issued a correction to its story. On the November 11 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs claimed Lynchs membership in one of the countrys leading African-American sororities was controversial because Holders wife, a classmate of Lynchs, also pledged Delta Sigma Theta. Other right-wing media figures have characterized Lynch as a biased Democrat, and have resorted to attacking her record on voting rights, a tactic they have used before against Obama nominees who have experience with civil rights law. Appearing on the November 10 edition of the Laura Ingraham Show, National Review Online contributor and frequent Fox News guest Hans von Spakovsky determined that Lynch was on the side of radical because of her support of the Department of Justices ongoing litigation against unnecessarily strict voter ID requirements -- the same kind of voter suppression that von Spakovsky has long championed: VON SPAKOVSKY: Well, its funny they all keep talking about how what a wonderful U.S. Attorney shes been, because remember Eric Holder had been a U.S. Attorney before he came in and you know, hes done a terrible job. Theres all these things that are now starting to pop up and surface on her, including a video that I just watched where in January of this year, she was talking about how she approved of Eric Holders war on election integrity, and saying that all these lawsuits that theyre filing against voter ID and things like that are going to continue and thats something that ought to very much concern members of the Senate. INGRAHAM: So, she -- on the scale of radical to just a kind of dyed in the wool Democrat-type, how would you rate her? VON SPAKOVSKY: Well, I think if -- based on what I saw in that video, shes on the side of radical. I also ran across something this morning where the Brennan Center in New York, you know the Brennan Center -- INGRAHAM: Oh, yes. VON SPAKOVSKY: -- one of the most extremist left-wing groups, and they put out something talking about how she had been associated with them. They didnt give any details, but thats an intriguing statement. Id like to know more about that. Ingraham and von Spakovsky failed to mention the fact that these lawsuits against strict voter ID and other legislative efforts to restrict the franchise are succeeding. The illegal and unconstitutional impact these laws have had against voters of color has been recognized not by radicals, but by judges across the political spectrum. In fact, both conservative Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and former Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens -- who had previously upheld the legality of Indianas voter ID law -- now argue that strict voting requirements are a form of voter suppression, rather than one of election integrity. This isnt the first time that right-wing media have gone after Obama nominees who have experience fighting for civil rights. When the president nominated attorney Thomas Perez to run the Department of Labor, Fox News called him an extremist race-baiter due to his previous experience as a successful head of the Department of Justices Civil Rights Division. When the president announced Perezs replacement, Debo Adegbile, right-wing media distorted his civil rights background and criminal defense experience to such an extreme that Adegbile was never confirmed. It didnt take long, but it appears that right-wing media are already recycling tried and true smears -- as well as baseless and bizarre new ones -- to go after Lynch in the absence of any compelling counterarguments against this highly-regarded attorney general nominee.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:28:56 +0000
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