Obama to nominate Loretta Lynch for AG seat
Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has been nominated for the role of U.S. Attorney General (AG).
President Barack Obama selected Lynch to succeed outgoing AG Eric Holder, a native New Yorker from the Bronx and Queens. Explaining his choice, Obama said he sought “somebody who shares [Holder’s] fierce commitment to equal justice under the law” and “it’s pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than Loretta.”
“Throughout her 30-year career, she has distinguished herself as tough, as fair, an independent lawyer [who has] spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud and cybercrime, all while vigorously defending civil rights,” Obama said.