Breaking: Attorney General to Do Her Job

My phone buzzed with a “news alert” from the New York Times Friday morning. Normally, these alerts are reserved for truly breaking, earth-shattering news, like the rise of “man buns” in Brooklyn.

But Friday’s alert was particularly odd: “Lynch to Accept Guidance of F.B.I. in Clinton Email Inquiry” screamed the headline. In other words, the breaking news is that Attorney General Loretta Lynch has pledged that she will…avoid corruption and do her job. “The attorney general often follows the recommendations of career prosecutors, [so] Ms. Lynch is keeping the regular process largely intact,” explains the Times.