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My reaction, honestly, is just kind of deep sadness. It’s a very serious job, and it requires a serious person who knows how to build complicated cases and evaluate complicated cases for when they’re worth bringing and when they’re not, who can build team loyalty, because it’s a very large institution, and people work there because they believe in the mission.
— A former federal prosecutor who is now working as a law firm partner, in anonymous commentary given to the National Law Journal, on the nomination of scandal-plagued Matt Gaetz as attorney general in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
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