Showing posts with label Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Never Mind "Hands Up" Was A Lie

Never Mind "Hands Up" Was A Lie

August 08, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Ferguson Opened Eyes Of America 0 Comments

AG: Ferguson Opened Eyes Of America



By Elisha Fieldstadt, Aug 07, 2015 NBC

A year after Michael Brown's death, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she believes the attention the shooting cast on Ferguson gave a voice to people all over the country who have long felt they are not respected by authorities.

Lynch said she thinks the relationship between law enforcement and citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, have improved since Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on Aug. 9, 2014, sparking protests in that town and nationwide. But, she said, "I believe that they are still undergoing a great change."

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Monday, July 27, 2015

Hillary: Has She Lost Andrea Mitchell?

Hillary: Has She Lost Andrea Mitchell?

July 27, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Bob Goodlatte 0 Comments

Andrea Mitchell Says Hillary's Private Server Was Used To Thwart Inquiries

By Chuck Ross, July 27, 2015 Daily Caller

Hillary Clinton had no legitimate reason to have a home-brewed email server as secretary of state and used it only to “thrwart” inquiries from Congress and the media, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell said Monday on “Morning Joe.”

“Nobody can give an explanation for why a cabinet secretary would have a private email system other than to thwart inquiries [and] FOIAs,” Mitchell said, recounting conversations she had with numerous intelligence officials at a security conference in which they discussed Clinton’s email arrangement.

The Democratic presidential candidate says she began using a private email server registered to her Chappaqua, N.Y. residence just after she became secretary of state. The server maintained private email accounts Clinton and several top State Department aides used to correspond.

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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Planned Parenthood Scandal: DOJ Yawns At Possibility Of "llegally Trafficked Baby Body Parts"

Planned Parenthood Scandal: DOJ Yawns At Possibility Of "llegally Trafficked Baby Body Parts"

July 26, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Investigate Group 0 Comments

Obama DOJ Plans To Investigate Group That Busted Planned Parenthood

July 23, 2015 The Federalist

The U.S. Department of Justice announced plans to investigate the group that produced undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees admitting that they harvest and sell organs ripped from the bodies aborted babies. Politico reported the news of the coming DOJ investigation earlier today:

JUSTICE TO PROBE CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS — While congressional committees investigate Planned Parenthood’s practices, the Justice Department agreed to look into whether the group that released the sting videos obtained the footage legally. In response to a request by House Democrats, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday afternoon that Justice would “review all of the information and determine what the appropriate steps moving forward would be.” Planned Parenthood has staunchly defended its practices and claims that the Center for Medical Progress illegally obtained its footage, then excessively edited it to misrepresent what the organization does.

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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Hell, GOP can't even defund Big Bird, Amtrak, TVA…!

Hell, GOP can't even defund Big Bird, Amtrak, TVA…!

July 25, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Chuck Grassley 0 Comments

Boehner Wants More ‘Facts’ Before Ending Planned Parenthood Funding--Here Are 8

By Sarah Torre, July 24, 2015 Daily Signal

WASHINGTON — Thousands of dangerous federal prison inmates will be released in November as a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s decision to lower federal sentencing for all drug trafficking and distribution crimes, two Republican lawmakers warned Tuesday.

According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the release will include inmates with violent criminal histories who committed crimes involving assault, firearms, and even murder.

Goodlatte and Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch Wednesday asking for more information about these inmates including a history of offenses for each offender projected release date, any known aliases of the offender along with the full legal name, the offender’s country of citizenship, and whether BOP has notified or intends to notify ICE about the release of any unlawful criminal aliens.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

The next Freddie Gray/Michael Brown/Trayvon/Garner?

July 19, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Investigate 0 Comments

Petition Calls For Attorney General To Investigate Sandra Bland’s Death

By Uptown, July 17, 2015 Up Town Magazine

A ColorOfChange.org petition is calling for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate the suspicious death of Sandra Bland while in police custody. The police claim Bland took her own life and local District Attorney Elton Mathis handed the investigation back to the Texas State troopers, the same agency that allegedly used excessive force when arresting Bland.
Here’s the email Rashad Robinson and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team sent out today explaining the situation and calling for Lynch to lead the investigation:

“You just slammed my head to the ground. Do you not even care about that?”

These were some of the last words of 28-year-old Sandra Bland. On Friday, Texas State troopers pulled Sandra over as she was driving to her new job for allegedly not using the turn signals during a lane change. What happened next was all too familiar and terrifying.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Oh, Please, Lois Is Home Free!

May 28, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , IRS 0 Comments
Loretta Lynch Has A Lois Lerner Decision To Make

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By Pete Kasperowicz, May 28, 2015 Washington Examiner

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee have asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch for an update on whether she will pursue criminal charges against former IRS employee Lois Lerner for her role in the IRS targeting scandal.

The committee last year identified three possible criminal charges that could be brought against Lerner, and asked the Department of Justice to consider bringing those charges. At the time, the attorney general was Eric Holder, and the committee chairman was Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.

The committee also said Lerner provided misleading statements to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration when it was investigating the scandal, and that Lerner may have exposed confidential taxpayer information in the course of her tenure at the IRS.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Is She Also Meeting With The Families Of The Charged Officers?

May 06, 2015 Alison Knezevich , Attorney General Loretta Lynch 0 Comments
Attorney General Loretta Lynch Meets Freddie Gray's Family 

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By Alison Knezevich and Mark Puente, May 5, 2015, The Baltimore Sun

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday that the Justice Department will examine the best options to improve the Baltimore Police Department in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death, and a full-scale civil rights investigation has not been ruled out.

After meeting with elected leaders, clergy and activists at four locations in Baltimore, Lynch said the city has come to symbolize police and community mistrust — an issue that plagues many cities across America.

"We're going to try to come up with solutions, real solutions for the city of Baltimore to improve this city," Lynch said. "That is our goal. That is our commitment. It is my commitment on behalf of the Department of Justice."

Lynch's visit comes four days after Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced criminal charges against six officers involved in Gray's arrest and transport. He died April 19 — one week after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Shades Of Eric Holder

May 05, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , CBS News 0 Comments
Loretta Lynch headed to Baltimore

By Rebecca Kaplan, May 5, 2015, CBS News  

In one of her first acts as the new attorney general, Loretta Lynch will travel to Baltimore on Tuesday.

She has not yet visited the city in the wake of the riots and protests following the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a spinal injury and later died while in police custody.

Lynch, along with the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Vanita Gupta, will meet with city officials, members of Congress, law enforcement officials, faith and community leaders and others. They will be joined by Ronald Davis, the director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and Grade Lum, the director of the Community Relations Service.

During a press conference last week, Lynch decried the violence in Baltimore and called for a "respectful conversation" there.

"It is easy to view Baltimore as a symbol of issues that we must all deal with. And of course, the difficult situation there highlights so many issues that are part of our national debate," she said. "But I'd ask that we remember that Baltimore is more than just a symbol. Baltimore is a city; it is a great city; it is a beautiful city; it is one of our cities.

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Monday, May 4, 2015

What Now, Madam AG?

May 04, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Baltimore 0 Comments
Riots Roil Loretta Lynch's First Week as Attorney General By Halimah Abdullah and Perry

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By Halimah Abdullah and Perry Bacon Jr., May 1, 2015, NBC News

It was supposed to be a celebratory day. Loretta Lynch stood beaming next to Vice President Joe Biden as he declared "it's about time" and swore her in as attorney general on Monday. The audience laughed. The frustration of a months-long delay in Lynch's confirmation as Congress bickered over policy matters was now behind them.

But the good cheer was cut short.

By nightfall, Baltimore erupted in violence as protestors burned buildings and cars, clashed with law enforcement, broke windows and looted. The events unfolded mere hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sustained a spinal injury while in police custody and later died.

On her first day on the job, Lynch was immediately pressed into dealing with the aftermath — she dispatched Justice Department officials to help calm the chaos and speak with community leaders and local officials. On her second day of the job, the Department of Justice announced it launched an investigation into the nature of Gray's death.

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

What, no march for Miguel Estrada?

March 29, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Lauren Victoria Burke 0 Comments
Black Women March To Senate Leader’s Office In Protest Over Loretta Lynch

Credit:  TheRoot.com / Lauren Victoria Burke
By Lauren Victoria Burke, Mar. 27, 2015, TheRoot.com

"We will not be moved, we will not go back, we will not stop," said Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner as she led a prayer outside the door of the U.S. Capitol office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as staff and U.S. Capitol police officers stirred nearby.

About 20 prominent black women arrived at the ornate office suites of McConnell Thursday morning, asking to meet with him—even if for only a few minutes in the hallway—over the delay in confirming Attorney General-designate Loretta Lynch. They were told McConnell was too busy. The women did meet with McConnell's chief of staff for about 20 minutes.

The group that arrived at his door included Williams-Skinner; attorney Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights; Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Sheila Tyson, a city councilwoman from Birmingham, Ala.; and Marcia Dyson, CEO of the Women's Global Initiative.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

RACE CARD ALERT!!!

March 26, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Bloomberg.com 0 Comments
Cleaver Says Failure To Confirm Loretta Lynch Would Show Racism Persists

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By Toluse Olorunnipa, Mar. 25, 2015, Bloomberg.com

(Bloomberg) -- Republicans blocking the confirmation of U.S. attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch risk playing into a theme that their opposition to President Barack Obama is based on race, Representative Emanuel Cleaver said.

A failure to confirm Lynch, who would be the first black woman to hold the post, would offer further evidence that race relations have deteriorated as Republicans in Congress have squared off with the first black president, Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat, said at a meeting with Bloomberg reporters and editors Wednesday in Washington.

“It would be yet another sign that the chasm we thought was narrowing is in fact just as it was before we entered into this new millennium as it relates to issues of race,” he said. “For many minorities, Latinos and African Americans, it would be just another contemporary sign that we have not moved as far as we had hoped.”

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Caught between Holder Hangover And Election Politics

March 14, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Politico.com 0 Comments
Loretta Lynch Nomination A Cliffhanger

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By Seung Min Kim, Mar. 12, 2015, Politico.com

Just days before her nomination as attorney general goes to the Senate floor, Loretta Lynch is stubbornly stuck right around 50 votes — suggesting a confirmation fight the Obama administration once seemed certain to win with relative ease will go down to the wire.

Barring an 11th-hour surprise, Lynch is likely to be confirmed. But with four GOP senators currently backing her along with unanimous support from Senate Democrats, Lynch would secure the bare minimum required to be installed as the nation’s top cop – as long as senators hauled in Vice President Joe Biden to break a tie.

Several Republican senators who could have been potential “yes” votes are signaling ahead of the confirmation vote that that they will instead vote against her. 

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

She didn't answer the question

January 29, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Confirmation Hearing 0 Comments
AG Nominee: 'Right To Work Is Shared By Everyone…"

By Senator Sessions YouTube Channel, Jan. 28, 2015



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