Bloomberg Law
April 5, 2019, 11:11 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: With Liu Out, Barr Mulls Ex-White House Lawyer for No. 3 DOJ Slot, Report Says

  • Attorney General William Barr is said to be considering former White House lawyer Claire Murray to be the Justice Department’s No. 3 attorney, which would put her in charge of DOJ civil litigation. Murray, already on Barr’s staff, is a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where Barr previously worked. She also previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was a federal appeals judge. (National Law Journal)

  • Those are conservative creds that D.C. federal attorney Jessie Liu apparently lacked. Liu withdrew last week as President Donald Trump’s pick for the ...

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