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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHolding breath for President Biden's Attorney General announcement!
LOTS happening, it appears; tramp+ 'packing up!'
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Holding breath for President Biden's Attorney General announcement! (Original Post)
elleng
Dec 2020
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A Democrat would win that seat. I didn't know if it was a step up from Head of
dem4decades
Dec 2020
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dem4decades
(14,167 posts)1. Could Adam Schiff be offered it? Would he take it?
elleng
(141,926 posts)3. He could be offered it.
I don't know if he would take it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(130,805 posts)4. He'd be great, but do we want to take a Dem from the House?
How would he be replaced? Most states have special elections; if there was one, would a Democrat win it?
dem4decades
(14,167 posts)6. A Democrat would win that seat. I didn't know if it was a step up from Head of
The Intelligence Committee. Would they rather have him there? Plus would the Pukes in the Senate block him.
dchill
(42,660 posts)2. Trump seems to be packing the courts...
...with investigations against himself and his goons.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)5. Biden's staff intimated last week his pick would be...
more focused on a more robust civil rights department and pushing more vigorously on criminal justice reform.
Though who that rules out or underlines in ink is beyond any guesses I can make.