Senate Republicans are showing divisions over President Barack Obama’s pick for attorney general, with some citing the president’s executive actions on immigration as reason for pause but others open to her selection.

Loretta Lynch began visiting senators this week in an effort to build support for her nomination. Lynch is a federal prosecutor in New York and the Senate is expected to vote on her selection early next year, when the chamber will be run by Republicans.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Obama’s recent orders saving millions of people from deportation are illegal and the next attorney general should not defend them.

“I don’t see how a person can serve as attorney general if they’re going to participate in a massive nullification of American law,” Sessions said Wednesday.

Another GOP member of the Judiciary panel, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Lynch will have to answer numerous questions about Obama’s immigration actions. But he called Lynch “a good, solid choice” and said the country needs an attorney general.

“She could talk me out of voting for her, but at the end of the day, we’ve got enough problems in this country,” said Graham. “The world is falling apart. We need a chief law enforcement officer in this country.”

(AP)