WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of several contenders under consideration by President-elect Joe Biden for the role of attorney general, a person with knowledge of the search process said Friday.
The other three contenders at the moment include outgoing Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, said the person, who cautioned that no decision had been reached and no announcement was expected imminently.
The person was not authorized to discuss the search process by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.
The AP reported earlier in the week that Jones, who lost his Senate seat last month, and Garland, who was spurned by Republicans four years ago for a spot on the Supreme Court, had emerged as the two front-runners in the search process.
Spokespeople for Cuomo did not immediately return emails seeking comment Friday.
It was not clear to what extent the disclosure this week that federal prosecutors were investigating the finances of Biden’s son, Hunter, might have scrambled the attorney general search process since the person who is ultimately picked would inherit the probe, assuming it remains active next month.
It was also not immediately clear how seriously Cuomo was being considered or how any nomination of him would be greeted by either Republicans, given Cuomo’s antagonistic relationship with President Donald Trump, or by civil rights activists who have encouraged Biden to build a diverse cabinet.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who was among advocates who met with Biden on Tuesday on the subject of diversity and civil rights, told reporters he had encouraged Biden to select a Black attorney general but gave him room to select someone of another race as long as they had a background in civil rights.
Cuomo has been asked in recent weeks about his interest in the attorney general spot. Just this week, he said in a public radio interview in New York, “I have no intention to run for president or vice president, or go to the administration.” But he said the attorney general job “is really critical, especially now.”
A former state attorney general and Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Clinton administration, Cuomo has been governor of New York since 2011 and has been the public face of the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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And the Academy Award goes to Governor Cuomo, for sending covid positive patients into nursing homes, for lawlessness in New York, for raising taxes, so as a result, there is a mass exodus from New York and for bankrupting small businesses, including restaurants. “Come on man”, this is a great resume for Attorney General of the United States.
Keeping in view what you listed backpacker… this particle of fecal matter should be the “contender” for prison.
What a laugh the AG spot has become. BUT WHEN YOU see what else, the left’s done, to literally flush Justice down the toilet, this is not a shocker to me.
sickening just plain sickening is what the left is.
At least Cuomo knows his days as Governor are numbered and he could not get elected dog catcher in New York if he tried, but could be eminently qualified to efficiently run the States’ Pet Cemetery.
more like evil… just plain evil.
I didn’t know pets could get the CHINA virus.
Pity cockroaches don’t get it!
Only if they’re in nursing homes…
Dana Perino said it best
“I do think that it is pretty interesting that only in the Democratic party could a white male flaunt a pandemic response in which you could actually trace the deaths of 10,000 people in nursing homes right back to him., be critically accused of sexual harassment, and at the same time be considered for the Attorney General’s spot in the new administration.”
As i’ve often remarked in the past, it seems BEING A SCOUNDREL, an honorless crook and a total and utter HACK, is a REQUIREMENT for democrats..