Cornell Law professor says immigration issue ‘should be deal-breaker for Loretta Lynch appointment’

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) Attorney Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday in front of Congress as part of her confirmation hearings to become Eric Holder’s successor as Attorney General.

Cornell University Clinical Professor, Director of the Securities Law Clinic, contributor for Legalinsurrection.com, and Harvard classmate of Lynch, William Jacobson told WPHT morning host Chris Stigall that he is troubled by her testimony, specifically with regards to her answers — or non-answers — on President Obama’s immigration policy.

“I’m about 95% of the way saying that it should be a deal breaker on her nomination, because it’s the concept that knowing full well that the main opposition to her is going to come on immigration, for her to come up there and say that she hasn’t studied enough or she’s not familiar enough with it is very troubling. It’s more troubling than what she actually answered, because that does tell me that this is somebody just trying to get through the nomination process as opposed to legitimately answering the questions — that to me is extremely troubling.”

While Lynch did share opinions on some issues, such as the legalization of marijuana (which she does not support), what particularly worried Jacobson is how she responded to questioning on immigration and how she feels that it had to do with prosecutorial discretion.

“I think that she was evasive, deliberately, on the immigration issue, and to the extent that she expressed an opinion, it was an opinion supportive of the Holder position that the Obama administration is justified in the sweeping non-application of immigration laws, which is not prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutorial discretion would be like deciding that we’re only going to pull over on the highway people who go 20 miles an hour over the speed limit, but what they’ve done is they’ve said there is this whole class of four to five million people who are now not subject to the speed limit.”

While he feels that her statements on immigration should get her appointment denied, saying that “the Senate needs to take a very serious look at her answers and non-answers on the immigration issue, since that is the number one law enforcement issue we’re facing right now,” Jacobson is confident that she will be confirmed anyway.

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  1. greyhound bus says

    Ground zero radio show just said something like the same crew that worked on 9/11. Doing drills or doing the las Vegas style building implosion . Blowing up the police is working at the Phoenix Arizona superbowl and putting numbers together spells isis.
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  2. Please note in the video showing the Sotero family photo the emblem Barry is wearing around his neck. To me it resembles a crown? MMMM?

  3. sherri palmer says

    Note: people who are self anointed usually attract people who have a powerful attraction for coups.

  4. sherri palmer says

    No Loretta Lynch and No amnesty!

  5. This “woman” or whatever she is, should NOT
    be an AG! It should NOT even be in our government at all! Whether she should even be in America is up for grabs! If obama likes IT then
    America should be AGAINST IT!
    Enough said!

  6. RIGHT, AND NO OBAMA!

  7. Louisiana Lady says

    My outrage is beyond extreme. If, in the face of her statements about illegals having the same right to work in the country

  8. I Don’t Think that She’s believes in the U.S. Constitution &
    that her “Oath to Defend It”–would be a “Fraud” since She’d
    be “Lying Under Oath”–This “Misrepresentation” will render
    her “Legal Appointment” as “Null & Void”-! Our U.S. “Fraud
    Laws” have ‘never’ been “Repealed”-! This Qualification is
    “Legal Law” & She should be required to “follow all U.S.
    Laws, as everyone else does”-! No Exceptions for any Race
    or Gender-! “One Law for All–or No Law for Any”-!

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