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President Barack Obama nominates Brooklyn federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the next U.S. attorney general, who if confirmed, would be the first black woman in the job. Jillian Kitchener reports.
The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing to confirm Loretta Lynch as the new U.S. attorney general, succeeding Eric Holder. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Politico and AP are reporting that Joe Biden has found his attorney general. Biden will nominate Judge Merrick Garland as his attorney general. Garland has been a judge on the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, since 1997. He began his legal career at the Justice Department under President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. In March 2016 Pres. Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme court. His nomination was scuttled after Republicans stonewalled it.
NPR reports that Judge Merrick Garland is under serious consideration by Joe Biden to serve as Attorney General. In 2016, Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by then-President Barack Obama. He never received a hearing and the nomination by blocked by Senate Republicans. Business Insider reports that Garland has served as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997. Garland was the US Court of Appeals chief judge from February 2013 to February 2020.
Venezuela's contested new assembly fired the country's dissident attorney general, Luisa Ortega, Saturday in a move sure to provoke greater international criticism. SOUNDBITE
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