Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders for President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general. Still, they are white and some Black leaders favor minority candidates.
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Maya Harris, sister of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, has taken part in talks with allies to boost the candidacy of her husband Tony West of Uber as Attorney General.
It is not clear whether the attorney general’s deliberations are being influenced by President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss or Trump’s fury over Barr’s acknowledgment that the Justice Department uncovered no widespread voting fraud.
Heidi Stirrup, President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department, has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud.
Attorney General William Barr named Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham a special counsel, giving him protection to continue into the Biden administration his investigation of the FBI’s 2016 Russia probe’s origins.
Among Biden’s transition team, talks about changes at the Justice Department have focused on reinstituting a more robust civil rights division, pushing more vigorously on criminal justice reform, and opening a new division on Environmental and Climate Justice.
Lott, 62, known for his book “More Guns, Less Crime,” left a nonprofit group he founded seven years ago to take a job as senior adviser for research and statistics at the Office of Justice Programs,
The appearance of Sally Yates, Doug Jones and Deval Patrick on Joe Biden’s shortlist for Attorney General show that he is weighing whether to emphasize extensive prosecutorial experience or credibility with social-justice advocates.
Mark Dupree, the district attorney in Wyandotte County, Ks., told U.S. Attorney General William Barr that work of the department’s special law enforcement commission had been “smothered by a pernicious political agenda.”
Some progressives might oppose the former Deputy Attorney General for positions such as her support for some mandatory minimum prison terms.