If the Obama administration gets its way, the confirmation process for Loretta Lynch, the president’s attorney general nominee, will be boring and noncontroversial. But it could instead get extremely interesting, and that depends a lot on what Obama does in the next few weeks on immigration.
There’s no guarantee—what can we really know in this mixed-up world of ours?—but Senate Republican aides indicate that Lynch’s confirmation has the potential to be enormously contentious. Even though Lynch is widely seen as a low-risk pick with a hard-to-attack track record, Republicans are targeting her for what could be a tough confirmation focused more on policymaking than personality. Here’s how this could play out.
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