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There’s not an obvious choice in my mind. So we’re just working through it.
— Presdident-elect Joe Biden, in comments made about his choice for who will eventually be named as his attorney general. Current frontrunners for the job include Judge Merrick Garland of the D.C. Circuit and Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL). Biden reiterated that his relationship with the Justice Department won’t look like that of his predecessor. “The attorney general of the United States of America is not the president’s lawyer,” he said. “I will appoint someone who I expect to enforce the law as the law’s written, not guided by me.”
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