Who’s Next? Kobach, Giuliani, Graham All Floated For Attorney General Post

Secretary of State Republican Kris Kobach responds to questions on stage during the Gubernatorial debate at the Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson, Kansas, September 8, 2018. (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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In the hours after President Donald Trump announced that Matthew Whitaker would temporarily replace his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, political observers began speculating about who has both sufficient loyalty to the President and the bipartisan bona fides necessary to get nominated and confirmed to the post.

Politico curated a list of possibilities, perhaps the most well-known of which are Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Kobach, who just got trounced in his bid for Kansas governor, has notably refused to comment one way or the other, though his campaign manager told Politico that it’s “definitely a possibility.”

Giuliani is his own biggest advocate for the position, saying back in 2016 that “nobody knows the Justice Department” better than he does.

Graham, despite his denials that he has Cabinet-level ambitions, is often cited as a rare candidate who might actually pull off Senate confirmation in the polarized climate.

Read Politico’s full list here.

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  1. Avatar for fuzz fuzz says:

    Bipartisan bonafides as solid as Sessions’s shouldn’t be difficult to come by. Newt Gingrich, maybe?

  2. KKKobach?
    Dog help us what disgusting choice that would be.

  3. With the inept Democratic leadership in Pelosi and Schumer, Trump can go beyond Nixon and get away with it.

    Schumer is as lame as they come: Instead of calling for Trump’s impeachment for pretty much firing Sessions, Schumer soft pedals and kisses Trump’s criminal act by saying Whitaker only needs to recuse himself from the investigation. That leaves Whitaker able to take Mueller’s budget and basically kill the investigation.

    Mueller totally got out foxed…he has more than enough evidence to subpoena and implicate Trump and instead he didn’t let the evidence drive things…he let the political calendar destroy any hope of a complete investigation and complete prosecution. Basically, Mueller proving he is a longstanding Republican…an honest prosecutor would never have done this kind of foot dragging.

  4. It’s early morning and I already have a case of the “fuckits.”

  5. Moe, Larry and Curly would be better choices. Can’t forget Shemp either, @blandsten!

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