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Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are calling on Loretta Lynch to say whether she supports executive action providing relief to millions of illegal immigrants.
President Obama formally announced on Saturday morning his decision to name Lynch, a U.S. attorney for New York, as his nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general. Lynch would be the first African-American woman to head the Justice Department and the second woman in history.
Reacting to her nomination, Cruz, R-Texas, and Lee, R-Utah, agreed that Lynch deserves “fair and full” Senate consideration, but said she should make clear whether she supports Obama’s decision to move forward with executive action granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants already in the country.
“The attorney general is the president’s chief law enforcement officer,” Cruz and Lee said in a statement on Saturday. “As such, the nominee must demonstrate a complete commitment to the law.”[…]
Obama again pledged Wednesday, one day after Democrats were roundly defeated at the polls and lost majority control of the Senate, to issue an executive order before the end of the year granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants unless Congress passes a comprehensive immigration reform bill.