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elleng

(130,861 posts) Tue May 8, 2018, 11:56 AM May 2018

Barbara Underwood to be named acting Attorney General following Schneiderman's resignation

She’s argued 20 cases before SCOTUS, clerked for Thurgood Marshall.

https://www.wkbw.com/news/barbara-underwood-named-acting-attorney-general-following-schneidermans-resignation

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Barbara Underwood to be named acting Attorney General following Schneiderman's resignation (Original Post) elleng May 2018 OP

She's a Democrat. Good. I trust her knowing that. Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #1

Yes, and she's she New York State Solicitor General. elleng May 2018 #2

Trump desperately needed to shut down NYAG cases where he has no pardon power Wwcd May 2018 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

1. She's a Democrat. Good. I trust her knowing that.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2018, 11:58 AM

May 2018

elleng

(130,861 posts)

2. Yes, and she's she New York State Solicitor General.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Tue May 8, 2018, 11:59 AM

May 2018

She’s argued 20 cases before SCOTUS, clerked for Thurgood Marshall.

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)

3. Trump desperately needed to shut down NYAG cases where he has no pardon power

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2018, 12:05 PM

May 2018

Cohen has his own fixer, & the mob is not about to be brought down.

My opinion.
They will do whatevr it takes to protect their own.

Barbara Underwood is the right one to carry on the cases against Trump's criminal enterprise.

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