Joe Biden is always good for some honesty.
While swearing in new Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday, Biden remarked that Lynch is “cut from the same cloth” as outgoing AG Eric Holder–a comment sure not to delight the Republicans who already opposed her nomination.
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“[Holder] is, in my view, one of the finest attorney generals we’ve ever had,” Biden said, according to The Hill.
“It’s about time this woman is being sworn in,” he said, calling it an “incredible moment.”
Lynch’s confirmation was delayed after it became entangled in a Senate fight over an anti-human trafficking bill, controversial for its provisions regarding abortion.
Many Republicans opposed her nomination, including Rand Paul, who hit Lynch over her refusal to say whether she would authorize drone strikes on American citizens and her long track record of backing civil asset forfeiture.
“Mrs. Lynch has a track-record of violating the individual freedoms granted to us by our Constitution,” Paul said earlier this year. “She considers civil asset forfeiture to be a ‘useful tool,’ while I consider it to be an infringement on the Fifth Amendment.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said last week, “[T]he question for me from the start has been whether Ms. Lynch will make a clean break from his policies and take the department in a new direction.”
It seems Biden, at least, does not believe that will be the case.
