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If you thought Eric Holder was bad...

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Constantin -- Last night I announced I will oppose Loretta Lynch's nomination to succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General. After listening to her testimony where she refused to commit to ruling out the federal government's authority to deploy drones to kill an American on American soil, I was appalled. But her testimony accelerated from appalling to dreadful at rapid speed . You see, she defended President Obama's illegal executive amnesty as "reasonable." And then she declared civil asset forfeiture as a "useful tool." Civil asset forfeiture is the process by which the government seizes your property -- sometimes before you are even convicted of a crime. It's a power grab that violates the Fifth Amendment. The Attorney General should independently and objectively analyze legal issues confronting the administration. We don't need another Attorne