What WILL Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) do? Will she confirm someone who values Bureaucracy over Congress? - Granite Grok

What WILL Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) do? Will she confirm someone who values Bureaucracy over Congress?

KellyAyotteSittingSteve put up the video of Ted Cruz interviewing Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch.  I listened to it and was amazed at how much “no answer’ answers the nominee can get away with.  And as the commenters to his post agher here. Paul Mirengoff of Powerline was live-blogging the Loretta Lynch hearing today and wrote this on Senator Vitter’s questions – and it caught my eye (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Vitter asks for the statutory basis for having the decisions on deportation made by DHS when the statute says its to be made by DoJ. Lynch won’t answer.  Vitter turns to mandatory minimums. They are in the statute, so why shouldn’t they be enforced whether we agree with them or not? Lynch cites limited resources and the need to prioritize.  But, as Vitter says, this makes the mandatory minimums non-mandatory and allows bureaucrats to override Congress.

This is the defining characteristic of Holder’s lawless reign at DoJ. And in no instance today has Lynch shown any discomfort with it. Indeed, as just occurred in response to Vitter, she has embraced it.

How many Republican Senators will accept this lawlessness by voting to confirm Lynch? The answer, it appears, is more than enough to confirm Lynch.

As a former NH AG, Kelly Ayotte was appointed twice to enforce The Law.   However, we can cite a number of occasions where The Law was ignored by her office even though she took an oath otherwise as Attorney General and swore it again upon sworn in as a US Senator.  So what will she do (yes, my bugaboo about voting for someone – can I Trust their vote without much question or do I have no clue how they will vote) – will she vote for someone who just said that Bureaucrats, on a whim, should have sway over Senators who actually create and pass The Law?  Will she decide to stop the process of Congress making itself irrelevant (and continue the path of Senators being reduced to Gas Bags)?  Or will she decide “this far and no further” and help Congress to stop being “yeller” and grab back it power and rightful place in our Constitutional Republic?

What will Kelly decide, for this is not just about an Obama nominee?  And re-election time will soon be here.

(H/T: Powerline)

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