If ever there were time for a prominent female Black lawyer to don a powder blue, linen dress, this may be Attorney General of the United States, Loretta Lynch’s moment.
It has been twenty-five years since Anita Hill was summoned in her powder blue dress and summarily called a liar by members of the Republican Party. Obviously they have learned few lessons. Democrats have a chance to support a woman of integrity and hopefully will not shrink from the fight once more, at least I hope not. Fox News has already spun the hate-o-meter, and the wheel stopped, at a name some liberals call a moderate voice, Meghan McCain. The daughter of Arizona Senator John McCain, was chosen to poke a stick in the eye of Ms. Lynch.
Ms. McCain intimated today that anyone who believed that a chance meeting with former President Bill Clinton and AG Lynch at a Phoenix airport recently was just a chance encounter to say hello, is either naïve or a fool. This of course centers around another non-existent Clintonian plot. This canard involves swaying Ms. Lynch to dispose of Hillary’s email usage probe. Even more incredulous, we are to believe that these scheming plotters of mayhem, were not smart enough to meet clandestinely to undermine the justice system. They set up this fantasy plot at an airport, supposedly in private but no effort was made to keep it secret. That puts the burden of disproving a negative squarely on the shoulders of Ms. Lynch. For you Hillary bashers, Bernie Busters, conspiracy theorist and just plain haters, YOU ARE CALLING LORETTA LYNCH A LIAR if you subscribe to this idea.
Loretta Lynch is a 1984 Harvard Law graduate, became a federal prosecutor in 1990, served as a State’s Attorney General in New York for 11 ½ years without a taint of disrepute. As with any prosecutor some of her decisions have been questioned, others lauded, but at no time has anyone ever questioned her honesty, until now. When Loretta Lynch accepted the appointment by President Obama as the United States Attorney General and was finally confirmed by the US Senate, Joe Biden commented, “it’s about time.” Well it is about time Democratic surrogates stand tall and call out the people who question Ms. Lynch. This is not a matter of semantics or mistaken judgement; she has said unequivocally that no political or judicial discussions involving the FBI’s look into the Secretary’s emails took place between her and Bill Clinton.
So either Democrats will stand in unison to defend her veracity or wither away as did Joe Biden during Anita Hill’s ordeal 25 years ago. Vice President Biden headed the judiciary committee investigating her allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. Proudly defiant, Ms. Hill would not blow away in the headwind of scathing critique. Justice Thomas called the probe of him, “a high-tech lynching.” Ms. Lynch is being carried up the stairs to the hangmen’s scaffold, now is the time, speak up America, she deserves better and so do we.