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Nominating a crony, loyalist or old buddy for attorney general is a US presidential tradition

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Sen. Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump on the presidential campaign trail, February 2016.AP/John Bazemore

With President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate former Attorney General William P. Barr to fill the position again, Trump chose a prominent Republican lawyer with extensive government experience to run the Justice...

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