If confirmed, it looks as if Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, will be carrying out  Eric Holder's politics of racial vengeance. Based on her family history, social justice statements and close ties to black activists,  Lynch will deploy law enforcement resources based on race and political ideology, not on the rule of law. As a young girl Lynch heard stories that her grandfather, a pastor,  hid people in trouble and helped them flee to the north to escape punishments under the Jim Crow laws of the time. I realized the power the law had over your life and how important it was that the people who wield that power look at each situation with a sense of fairness and evenhandedness. Lynch's father, Reverend Lorenzo Lynch, a Baptist minister, opened his church in the early 1960's to  students organizing  lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C. where she grew up.  According to Lynch, her...(Read Full Post)