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Who would want to be Joe Biden’s attorney general?

24 December 2020

1:57 AM

24 December 2020

1:57 AM

Whoever Joe Biden picks for attorney general is in a lose-lose situation. Why is that job so hard? At least three reasons stand out:

  1. The ongoing criminal investigations of Joe Biden’s family
  2. A boiling cauldron of divisive legal questions facing the new administration, particularly immigration and gun control
  3. Pressure to investigate everything the Trump administration ever did

All those will land in the attorney general’s lap.

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