Race Creeps Into Debate Over Stalled Nomination For Attorney General

Race Creeps Into Debate Over Stalled Nomination For Attorney General
Challenged by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch defends President Barack Obama's decision to shelter millions of immigrants from deportation though they live in the country illegally but she said they have no right to citizenship under the law, as she testifies at her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Lynch made her remarks in the opening moments of a hearing into her appointment as the nation's first black female attorney general. It is the first confirmation proceeding since Republicans took control of the Senate this month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Challenged by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch defends President Barack Obama's decision to shelter millions of immigrants from deportation though they live in the country illegally but she said they have no right to citizenship under the law, as she testifies at her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Lynch made her remarks in the opening moments of a hearing into her appointment as the nation's first black female attorney general. It is the first confirmation proceeding since Republicans took control of the Senate this month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

African American and other civil rights leaders infuriated over the stalled confirmation vote on Loretta E. Lynch, the first black woman to be nominated for attorney general, are casting the delay as an issue with racial overtones.

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