{"id":70770,"date":"2015-04-23T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70770"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:07:17","slug":"lynch-confirmed-att-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70770","title":{"rendered":"Lynch confirmed US Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lynchloretta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70771\" alt=\"lynchloretta\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lynchloretta.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Loretta Lynch has won confirmation to serve as the nation&#8217;s attorney general, ending months of delay.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 56-43 in the Senate Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch will replace Eric Holder and become the first black woman in the nation&#8217;s top law enforcement post. She currently serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Her confirmation was delayed for months for a variety of reasons, most recently a lengthy dispute over abortion on an unrelated bill to address sex trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch boasts strong credentials and a reputation as a no-nonsense prosecutor, but many Republicans opposed her because of her support for President Barack Obama&#8217;s executive actions on immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Loretta Lynch has won confirmation to serve as the nation&#8217;s attorney general, ending months of delay. The vote was 56-43 in the Senate Thursday. Lynch will replace Eric Holder and become the first black woman in the nation&#8217;s top law enforcement post. She currently serves as U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70790,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70770\/revisions\/70790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}