Obama Makes A.G. Choice That Blends In
Reports indicate that President Obama is poised to nominate Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General.
Reports indicate that President Obama is poised to nominate Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General. Lynch would be the second black person, second woman, and first black woman to be the USAG, so that’s a lot of diversity checkboxes.
UPDATE (11/8/2014, 12:30 p.m.): Lynch has been officially nominated to serve as AG.
Lynch might seem like a bold, outside-the-box choice to fill the controversial post. She’s not. She couldn’t be more a boring, “no drama Obama” kind of choice. Lynch is currently the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which means she’s the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn. She doesn’t have big press conferences. She doesn’t go after “fat cats” on Wall Street. She just does her job. Her highest profile case was probably prosecuting the cops who sodomized Abner Louima.
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Yawn. Obama should have nominated Eliot Spitzer while holding his middle finger in the air and saying, “Say hello to my lame-duck session.”
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