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Justice Department has
challenged voter ID laws
for political advantage,"
Burr said in a statement "1
\ wish Ms. Lynch the best in
' her future endeavors, but
she is not the right choice
for attorney general."
The state law mandates
photo identification to vote
in person starting in 2016,
but starting last year, it also
reduced the number of
early voting days and elim
inated same-day registra
tion during the early voting
period. Other voters and
groups have challenged the
law in federal and state
court, arguing the changes
are unconstitutional and
make it harder for minority
groups to vote. Trials are
set for this summer.
In a news release, Tillis
called the legislation "a
common sense and consti
tutionally sound voter ID
law."
Tillis didn't mention the
elections law during his
committee address
Thursday. While praising
Lynch's background, he
said he's not convinced
there would be enough of a
change in management
style.
"I do not see someone
who is going to recognize
that .there are legitimate
issues that need to be
addressed and that we need
someone in there that's
going to take that serious
ly," Tillis told committee
members.
Tillis also said in his
news release that he didn't
like it when Lynch testified
to the committee that she
considers Obama's recent
executive actions on immi
gration to be legal. Gov.
Pat McCrory has joined a
lawsuit to challenge those
actions.
Despite Tillis' vote.
Lynch won approval from
a key Senate committee
Thursday to serve as the
nation's next attorney gen
eral, as divided
Republicans clashed over
her support for President
Barack Obama's immigra
tion policies.
The 12 to 8 vote in the
Judiciary Committee sent
Lynch's nomination to the
full Senate. Three
Republicans joined all
committee Democrats in
voting "yes." the case
against her nomination, as
far as I can tell, essentially
ignores her professional
career and focuses solely
on about six hours that she
spent before this commit
tee," said Sen. Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, as he criticized fel
low Republicans for using
Lynch's testimony in sup
port of Obama's executive
actions on immigration as a
Loretta Lynch Bio
Born: May 21,1959
Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Education: Harvard
1981; law degree,
Harvard Law School,
1984.
Experience: United
States attorney for the
Eastern District of New
York 1999-2001,2010.
Partner at Hogan &
Hartson in New York,
2002-2010.
associate at New York
law firm Cahill Gordon
& Reindel, 1984-1990.
reason to oppose her nomi
nation.
"I do not believe that is
a proper way to evaluate
any nominee's fitness for
any position," Hatch said.
But GOP Sens. Jeff
Sessions of Alabama and
Ted Cruz of Texas, among
others, insisted that Lynch
disqualified herself with
her support for those direc
tives and had not shown
she would be sufficiently
independent from Obama.
"The president's policy
is to allow people unlaw
fully here to take jobs in
America ? a policy she
has explicitly stated she
intends to defend," said
Sessions. "We should not
confirm someone to that
position who intends to
continue that unlawful pol
icy."
Despite the disagree
ment, Lynch is all but
assured approval by the full
Senate, under new rules
that will require only a
majority vote instead of the
60-vote margin required
for most legislation.
Timing for a floor vote is
uncertain.
But unlike Obama's
defense secretary nominee.
Ash Carter, who was
approved by an over
whelming bipartisan vote
of 93-5 earlier this month.
Lynch is unlikely to win
approval by a resounding
margin. As Thursday's
debate illustrated, GOP
opposition to Obama's
immigration policies hai>
become entwined in a vari
ety of issues in the newly
Republican-run Congress,
and it has cut into Lynch's
support at the same time it'
is holding up funding for
the Department of
Homeland Security.
Committee Democrats
took turns denouncing their
Republican colleagues for
using the immigration
issue as a reason to oppose
Lynch, 55, who now serves
as U.S. attorney for the
Eastern District of New
York. She would replace
Eric Holder and become
the first black woman to
hold the nation's top law
enforcement job.
"Let me be crystal
clear: The place for this
battle is in the courts," said
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D
N.Y. "Political fights over
immigration should not
hold up Loretta Lynch,
DHS funding or anything
else."
A federal court recently
put the policies on hold, a
ruling the Obama adminis
tration is appealing. The
directives extended work
permits and deportation
stays to millions in the
country illegally.
GOP Sens. Lindsey
Graham of South Carolina
and Jeff Rake of Arizona
joined Hatch in voting to
support Lynch. Graham
suggested other
Republicans find another
outlet for their opposition
to Obama's immigration
plans.
'To those who really
believe this is a constitu
tional overreach of historic
proportions you have
impeachment available to
you," Graham said.
Rake noted that he and
others have been eager to
say good-bye to Holder, a
lightning rod for conserva
tives who butted heads
repeatedly with Capitol
Hill Republicans and was
held in contempt of
Congress.
"The longer this nomi
nation is held up the longer
the current attorney general
in the Department of
Justice stays in place,"
Rake said.
But Cruz, a potential
2016 presidential candi
date, said, "The answers
Ms. Lynch gave in this
hearing room, in my judg
ment, render her unsuitable
for the position of chief law
enforcement officer of the
United States."
Cruz has pressured
Republican leadership to
hold up Lynch and other
Obama nominees as a way
to pressure the president
over his immigration plans,
but most other Republicans
have shown little interest in
participating in his
approach.
Associated Press writer
Erica Werner contributed
to this report out of
Washington.
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