Durbin: Loretta Lynch Being Asked To ‘Sit In The Back Of The Bus’ In Senate

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin responds to a reporter's question after a debate with challenger, Republican state Sen. Jim Oberweis, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Chicago. Oberweis, a dairy entrepreneur from Sugar G... Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin responds to a reporter's question after a debate with challenger, Republican state Sen. Jim Oberweis, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Chicago. Oberweis, a dairy entrepreneur from Sugar Grove, has acknowledged it will take a big GOP year to unseat Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate who's represented Illinois on Capitol Hill for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) MORE LESS
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Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) blasted the delay in confirming Loretta Lynch as the first African American female attorney general, making a segregation-era reference when attacking the Senate Republican leadership.

“Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar,” the No. 2 Democratic senator said Wednesday in a floor speech. “That is unfair. It’s unjust. It is beneath the decorum and dignity of the United States Senate. This woman deserves fairness.”

Lynch’s nomination, made official in November, is being held up over an unrelated dispute about an anti-abortion provision in an anti-human-trafficking bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday she’ll get a final confirmation vote once the bill is completed.

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  1. SO lIBtards WOUld RATher HAVE the PREborN sit in THE Back OF the BUs?

  2. I don’t understand. I thought the Republic party didn’t like the current AG…who’s said he’ll stay until a successor is confirmed.

  3. Yea, yea, so every blue moon a Dem waddles out to the microphones to offer mild web snark to the voracious maw of wet diaper media and diaper content Rethugs.
    Blah, blah, blah and blah.

  4. I think this is the GOP’s upfront acknowledgement that they will never get the Black vote and could care less. It’s also partly an acknowledgement that they won’t get as much of the Latino vote and could care less. They’re gonna milk JEB’s Latino connection for as much as they can and just let it go at that.

    At this point, they’re just gonna focus on the White, elderly vote.

  5. These GOP temper tantrums get stranger and stranger. Durbin might be race baiting a bit, but that’s what the GOP gets for linking her confirmation to the inclusion of a poison pill in another piece of legislation and then gleefully skewering Dems as coddling sex-traiffickers because they won’t just suck it up and vote for the GOP bill.

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