Can’t be worse than Sessions or Barr for the cannabis sector. Well we hope not !
As alwaysshe / he will still have to get past the recalcitrant Republicans ..
Media reports say…
President-elect Joe Biden
“I’ll announce them for you on Wednesday and on Friday,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Del., adding that he would unveil his pick for Defense secretary on Friday.
The president-elect’s office later sought to clarify the timeline for additional Cabinet announcements.
Politico say these are Biden’s hot tips for AG
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/joe-biden-cabinet-picks-possible-choices-433431#4
DOUG JONES Alabama senator; former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
With Tommy Tuberville’s defeat of Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Tuesday, Jones will be unemployed come January and available to join Biden’s cabinet. Jones wouldn’t add to the Cabinet’s diversity, but the former U.S. attorney in Alabama has credibility when it comes to civil rights: He led the successful prosecutions of two members of the Ku Klux Klan involved in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, nearly 40 years later. Jones also happens to be a friend of Biden’s, dating back to his work on Biden’s first presidential campaign in 1988.
Jones, however, is likely to have competition for the Attorney General post, including from Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez. Perez is “in the mix,” said Oscar Ramirez, a Democratic lobbyist who worked in the Obama administration and is active in Latino Democratic circles. Another person who’s tracked the early jockeying for attorney general said allies of Perez have floated his name.
Perez has Justice Department experience: He served as assistant attorney general for civil rights in President Barack Obama’s administration before Obama tapped him as Labor secretary. But he also faces a potential obstacle with Republicans likely to remain in control of the Senate: No Republicans voted to confirm him as Labor secretary in 2013, and it’s unlikely that his years leading the DNC have endeared him to the GOP.
Another name being mentioned is Sally Yates, a former deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, who became a progressive cause célèbre when President Donald Trump fired her in the early days of his presidency for refusing to defend his executive order barring entry to people several Muslim countries. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is another potential candidate, Ramirez said, although he’s also been mentioned as a possible Homeland Security secretary. California Gov. Gavin Newsom might also tap Becerra, a former congressman, to fill the Senate seat that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will vacate in January. (Becerra previously succeeded Harris as California attorney general in 2017 following Harris’ election to the Senate.)
— Theodoric Meyer
XAVIER BECERRA California attorney general; former California congressman and state House member
SALLY YATES Partner, King and Spalding; former acting attorney general and deputy attorney general; former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia
TOM PEREZ Chair of the Democratic National Committee; former secretary of Labor; former assistant attorney general for civil rights
