FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2015 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two years ago, Corker wondered aloud whether the standstill Senate was worth a grown man’s time. But Republicans’ political fortunes in last November’s elections and brutal terrorism overseas have put the two-term Tennessee lawmaker in the chairmanship of the storied Foreign Relations Committee and in charge of the weightiest choices to ever face lawmakers: whether to vote to authorize war. The high-stakes role of negotiating President Barack Obama’s request for new authority to destroy Islamic state militants is a test for the affable businessman and former Chattanooga mayor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) U.S. Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander today announced they will oppose the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general of the United States.
"The job of the U.S. attorney general is to enforce federal laws as written, not as the administration wishes they were written," Corker said in a news release. "While I believe Ms. Lynch is an impressive attorney and a committed public servant, nothing revealed during our personal meeting or at her confirmation hearing has assured me that she will be an independent attorney general and refrain from selective enforcement of the law, and therefore I will not be supporting her confirmation."
Alexander said the nomination was an example of the president's "abuse of executive authority."