Why a special counsel is guaranteed if Biden chooses Yates, Cuomo or Jones as AG
In recent days, President-elect Joe Biden has stated that his attorney general will not be "the president's lawyer," adding that he promises his "justice department will be totally on its own making its judgments about how to proceed."
And who could disagree? The attorney general is the top cop in the land, and no person, not even the president, as Richard Nixon once claimed in a famous interview with British journalist David Frost, is above the law.
But Biden's AG shortlist says quite the opposite of his declaration of AG independence.
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Take Sally Yates, the former federal prosecutor who has become a media darling in recent years for the same reason almost everyone else has: Her resistance efforts against President Trump while using the kind of soaring rhetoric one would expect in your average Aaron Sorkin production.
"Put simply, [Trump] treats our country like it’s his family business. This time, bankrupting our nation’s moral authority at home and abroad," Yates said during her endorsement speech of Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention. "But our country doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to all of us. Joe Biden embraces that. He has spent his entire life putting our country first."
"He has never backed down from a challenge or a bully," she continued. "He summons the best in us, and lives by the values that define us as Americans, service, integrity, courage, compassion."
Yup. Yates is just the person to lead the Justice Department given that perspective and rhetoric. And we can be totally sure that if Biden asked her not to pursue any investigation of his son Hunter Biden any further than the current FBI investigation that has been ongoing for more than a year, she'll completely resist doing so in the name of service and integrity, right?
Choose Merrick Garland as your attorney general, Mr. president-elect, regardless of the backlash from progressives in the party you likely barely recognize anyway.
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