Lynch Finally Confirmed as Attorney General

Loretta Lynch’s long wait to become U.S. attorney general “ended, with the Senate voting to confirm the veteran New York prosecutor’s nomination five months after President Obama submitted it to Congress,” the Washington Post reports.

“Ten Republicans joined the Senate’s 44 Democrats and two independents in supporting Lynch’s confirmation, a margin slightly wider than expected ahead of the vote. But getting the Senate to this point has been a slow and rancorous affair, one Obama deemed ’embarrassing’ last week.”