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Biden team explores Sen. Doug Jones for attorney general nominee as the candidate list narrows to four names
Matt Viser, Matt Zapotosky and Amy B Wang, The Washington Post
Dec. 9, 2020
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Sen. Doug Jones is pictured at a news conference in August 2019.Photo by Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden s top advisers have asked at least one outside advocacy group for input about Sen. Doug Jones as a potential attorney general, one indication that his team is giving serious consideration to the Alabama Democrat as the nation s top law enforcement official.
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Doug Jones is on Biden s attorney general list, along with Sally Yates, Merrick Garland and Deval Patrick
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Biden tells civil rights leaders that Republicans weaponized the defund the police slogan to beat the hell out of Democrats gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta) © Susan Walsh/AP President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Susan Walsh/AP
President-elect Joe Biden told a group of civil rights leaders that Republicans beat the hell out of Democrats in 2020 by attacking them over the defund the police slogan employed by some activists.
Biden made the remarks in a Tuesday Zoom call with several civil rights heavyweights.
Audio from the call was leaked to The Intercept.
Biden urged the group to avoid pushing for drastic police reform measures ahead of the two US Senate runoff elections in Georgia.