BuzzFeed - A senior aide tells BuzzFeed News that if Obama's attorney general pick passes a committee vote (which seems likely), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not stop a full Senate vote -- despite calls to block nominees over Obama's executive actions. Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch Kevin Lamarque / Reuters WASHINGTON â Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won't stand in the way of Loretta Lynch's nomination to become the next Attorney General despite pressure from conservative activists and Sen. Ted Cruz to hold up all of President Obama's nominees until he rescinds a controversial immigration order. Angered over Obama's executive orders deferring deportations of potentially millions of undocumented immigrants, Cruz and other conservatives have called on McConnell to keep all of Obama's nominees off the floor of the Senate, save those that have a direct effect on national security issues. On Wednesday a spokeswoman for Cruz said the Tex
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