Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the latest 2016 GOP presidential hopeful to oppose confirmation of Obama's pick for the next attorney general.
According to Walker spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski, the governor has declared Obama nominee Loretta Lynch "not fit" to become the nation's top law enforcement official.
"Given Loretta Lynch's failure to commit to protect Americans from the president's lawless executive overreach, that even he said nearly two dozen times, she is not fit to serve as the nation's attorney general," Kukowski told Breitbart News in an email.
Walker joins Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., as likely presidential hopefuls speaking out against Lynch's confirmation.
"For several months now, I have called on the Senate majority leader to halt confirmations of every nominee executive and judicial, other than vital national security positions, unless or until the president rescinds his unconstitutional amnesty," Cruz told Politico. "We have an opportunity in front of us right now with Loretta Lynch – a nominee for attorney general – who has fully embraced and flat-out promised to implement the unconstitutional amnesty."
"Oh, she's going down," Paul told his office staff after learning Lynch supports executive amnesty and use of asset forfeiture by the federal government.
As WND has reported, Lynch's confirmation is hanging by a thread, as just one switched vote could doom her nomination. Politico, for example, is reporting only 50 senators are planning to vote to confirm her next week.
Breitbart further notes that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Tenn., is now struggling to defend even holding the vote in the first place.
McConnell spokesman Don Stewart reportedly refused to answer when Breitbart asked him why the leader plans to bring Lynch's nomination up for a floor vote. He also refused to state whether McConnell himself will personally vote for Lynch, something that would be a direct violation of a pre-election statement McConnell made that the next attorney general must put the rule of law ahead of "ideological commitments … whether it relates to the president’s acting unilaterally on immigration or anything else."
Most Republican senators who have joined the rising opposition to Lynch have explained she would be too much of a clone of current Attorney General Eric Holder in not challenging the legality and constitutionality of President Obama's rule by executive actions, in particular, his granting of amnesty to five million illegal immigrants.
But behind the scenes, the sudden change of hearts also may be due to a WND expose about allegations that Lynch covered up money laundering by drug lords and terrorists.
WND has chronicled in great detail charges that Lynch, in her capacity as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 2012, arranged a mere slap-on-the-wrist settlement with the world's second largest bank, HSBC, for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and Middle Eastern terrorists.
The wrist-slap $1.9 billion fine paid to the U.S. government, and an admission of "willful criminal conduct," allowed HSBC to enter into a "deferred prosecution" settlement, which ended the investigation and stopped the filing of criminal charges.
Whistleblower and former HSBC Vice President John Cruz, however, told WND he believes the laundering is still continuing due to the lack of oversight by Lynch.
HSBC also faces a renewed investigation by U.S. authorities and British lawmakers "after reports it helped customers to conceal millions of dollars of assets in a period up to 2007."
WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi broke the HSBC story in 2012, after making contact with whistleblower Cruz, who provided mountains of meticulously documented evidence of HSBC money laundering.
The charges against Lynch gained new urgency after she became the attorney general nominee.
After WND recently informed key senators of the charges, they expressed keen interest as Cruz provided Senate investigators with his voluminous documented evidence.
Senate investigators also recently interviewed Cruz on details of his allegations.
Corsi reported in WND on Feb. 18 that the Senate Judiciary Committee had conducted a two-hour session with Cruz on his allegations Lynch engaged in a Department of Justice cover-up, based on his more than 1,000 pages of evidence and secret audio recordings.
WND's extensive and comprehensive reporting on HSBC includes these recent stories:
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HSBC whistleblower spills Lynch evidence to Senate
Loretta Lynch never contacted HSBC whistleblower
'Launder-gate' settlement seen as sellout
Not so fast! Brakes slammed on Obama's AG nominee
Senator probes Obama's Launder-gate 'cover-up'
AG nominee eyed in massive Obama cover-up
Whistleblower believes HSBC still money laundering
Explosive: Stunning backstory inside HSBC scandal
Whistleblower: AG nominee in $1 billion Obama cover-up
Now banks decide IF you can have your money
Holder admits some banks 'too big to fail'
WND names 'Whistleblower of the Year'
Calls from 3 continents to criminally prosecute HSBC
Whistleblower sues bank giant for $10 million
Whistleblower: HSBC $1.9 billion fine 'a joke'