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On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated a conservative alumnus of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis to be his Secretary of Labor: R. Alexander Acosta, dean of Florida International University College of Law.
Acosta, who worked at Kirkland as an associate in the 1990s, was named a day after Andrew F. Puzder ...
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