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Actors, Democratic insiders, and megadonors all helped Biden s team raise more than $22 million.
The Biden transition started receiving checks in May 2020, before Biden clinched the nomination.
Before Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and stalled the presidential transfer effort last year, Democrats were already cutting checks to Joe Biden s transition team to prepare for such a scenario.
Party heavyweights wanted to make sure that even if Biden didn t have access to official government documents, his team would have plenty of cash to get ready for his new job.
And Democrats and other like-minded Americans came through. Together they contributed more than $22.1 million according to a disclosure document released Monday by the General Services Administration. Such fundraising obliterates previous marks for presidential transition funds, according to federal records.
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Biden s attorney general nominee faced questions at his confirmation hearing.
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Merrick Garland delivers opening statement at confirmation hearing
The attorney general nominee testifies at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.Bill Clark/Pool via AP
President Joe Biden s nominee for attorney general, Merrick Garland, at his confirmation hearing Monday, told senators his first briefing once he takes office at the Justice Department will be on the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Garland, currently a federal appeals court judge who worked previously in the Clinton Justice Department overseeing the prosecution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the 1990s, said the threat from domestic terrorism is even greater now.
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One of former Solicitor General Noel Francisco’s final acts as the Trump administration’s top litigator was to sign a brief claiming that Obamacare should be struck down by the Supreme Court. The arguments in that brief, as well as the arguments raised by the plaintiffs in
California v. Texas, are widely viewed as absurd even by conservative scholars who have, in the past, tried to convince the courts to dismantle Obamacare.
Nevertheless, this brief in a still-pending Supreme Court challenge placed President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in a difficult position. Traditionally, the solicitor general’s office is extremely reluctant to switch its positions in pending cases, even when a new administration takes over. The Bush administration did not switch its position in a single Supreme Court case that had already been briefed by President Bill Clinton’s Justice Department. And the Obama administration did not abandon any of the positions taken by
Joe Biden has an Attorney General problem, and his name is not Bill Barr.
Hunter Biden is the “vexing” issue for which Joe Biden seemingly has no good answer. An active and broad-based investigation of Hunter Biden if no Special Counsel is named will be a problem for a Biden Administration Attorney General because no subordinate Department of Justice Official is going to make a decision on whether or not to indict the son of a sitting President without the approval of the Cabinet Officer atop the Department.
Now, who would want THAT job?
Former Obama Administration Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was thought to be the frontrunner in the immediate aftermath of Joe Biden appearing to be the winner. But she was actively involved in the first seven months of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, including meetings and discussions with many people who were key decision-makers in that matter. She would certainly have to recuse herself as AG over the Durham Special Cou