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[Kamala Harris] should be looking for an attorney general who will aggressively — but within the law and the evidence — finish the uncompleted work of securing convictions against all those responsible for Jan. 6, including at the very top.
—An anonymous Obama administration official told Ankush Khardor at Politico what Kamala Harris should be looking for in an Attorney General, provided she wins the 2024 election. Khardor went on to note this sentiment was echoed in others he spoke to, writing, “One common theme is that what the department needs (what the department lacks in Garland) is a more politically confident and adept figure — someone who will not shy away from taking assertive positions in politically charged cases even if doing so upsets wide swathes of the public, and someone who can effectively defend those decisions in the political arena.”