Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, once the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement today that he opposes the nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general. Sessions cited Lynch’s answers in Thursday’s nomination hearing to his questions about President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Here’s an excerpt from Sessions’s statement:

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