Doug Jones seen as leading contender as Biden attorney general: report
By Zack Budryk - 12/08/20 04:21 PM EST
Outgoing Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has emerged as the number-one contender for President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general, according to NBC News, citing three sources familiar with the discussions.
Other contenders reportedly include former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Judge Merrick Garland, who President Obama nominated to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court in 2016. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused to hold hearings on Garland’s nomination.
Jones, first elected in 2017, was defeated in his 2020 bid for a full term by Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, former head football coach at Auburn University. His nomination would come almost exactly four years after President Trump named then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, also from Alabama, to the position.
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