14 AGs join Maryland AG suit challenging legality of Whitaker's appt.

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https://www.jurist.org/news/2018/11/15-ags-file-brief-opposing-whitaker-as-us-ag/

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1. Wow, Maine and North Carolina surprise me

The rest I'd expect.

Maryland and The amicus brief was filed by Attorney General Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Attorney General Karl Racine of Washington, DC. The attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington also joined in the brief.

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2. Great NM is in there!

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3. Michigan will be onboard after January 1.

Our first LGBT attorney general, Dana Nessel.

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4. Excellent. I look forward to California joining in. nt

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5. "novel and exceedingly strange"

From the article:

The states argue that the Department of Justice’s November 14 memo is incorrect, stating that the Vacancies Reform Act cannot be used as an alternative method of appointing an acting head of the Department of Justice. Even though the Vacancies Reform Act does not expressly state that the act cannot be used if another statute remains in effect, the brief argues it should not have to. The brief also calls the memo’s theory “novel and exceedingly strange.” Instead, the attorney general succession statute is the only way that an acting Attorney General can be appointed.

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6. K&R