Blanco Chevy
09-03-2024, 05:59 PM
Democrats Are Already Buzzing About a Merrick Garland Successor (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/28/kamala-harris-attorney-general-pick-00176544)
he contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains up for grabs (https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/08/19/dnc-live-updates-coverage/the-things-that-actually-matter-00174798), but one thing seems clear regardless of who wins in November: This is likely Merrick Garland’s last year as attorney general.
That outcome is obvious if Trump wins, but as Democrats contemplate a potential Harris presidency, the party’s political-legal establishment is already buzzing about who might replace Garland if Harris wins — and how that person should steer a post-Garland Department of Justice in new ways.
So, who might succeed Garland? My conversations make clear there are plenty of names of potential Democrats in the mix — some of which have been previously reported and others that have not.
They include people like Tony West, Harris’ brother-in-law and a former high-ranking official in the Obama Justice Department, whose name has already shown up (https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/kamala-harris-possible-cabinet-members-46095ca2) in some early reports (https://www.axios.com/2024/08/07/kamala-harris-cabinet-election). Other possible contenders who have thus far largely flown under the radar include North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who previously worked as the state’s attorney general and introduced Harris at the Democratic convention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53t-ZXM1O5k), and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, another former state attorney general and convention speaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7sOLCbIKZA).
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/28/kamala-harris-attorney-general-pick-00176544
he contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains up for grabs (https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/08/19/dnc-live-updates-coverage/the-things-that-actually-matter-00174798), but one thing seems clear regardless of who wins in November: This is likely Merrick Garland’s last year as attorney general.
That outcome is obvious if Trump wins, but as Democrats contemplate a potential Harris presidency, the party’s political-legal establishment is already buzzing about who might replace Garland if Harris wins — and how that person should steer a post-Garland Department of Justice in new ways.
So, who might succeed Garland? My conversations make clear there are plenty of names of potential Democrats in the mix — some of which have been previously reported and others that have not.
They include people like Tony West, Harris’ brother-in-law and a former high-ranking official in the Obama Justice Department, whose name has already shown up (https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/kamala-harris-possible-cabinet-members-46095ca2) in some early reports (https://www.axios.com/2024/08/07/kamala-harris-cabinet-election). Other possible contenders who have thus far largely flown under the radar include North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who previously worked as the state’s attorney general and introduced Harris at the Democratic convention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53t-ZXM1O5k), and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, another former state attorney general and convention speaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7sOLCbIKZA).
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/28/kamala-harris-attorney-general-pick-00176544