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Leaders of several civil rights groups laid out their recommendations on Tuesday for the type of attorney general President-elect Joe Biden should nominate to ...head the Justice Department. The virtual conclave between seven civil rights leaders and Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), an incoming senior adviser to the president, comes as the president-elect continues to fill out his government. Biden introduced members of his health team earlier on Tuesday, and POLITICO reported that he intends to nominate Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development and former Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa to run the Department of Agriculture... You cannot respond by not having an attorney general that has a background in civil rights, the Rev. Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network, recalled telling Biden during a virtual news conference. My preference, I said to him, is to have a Black attorney general. I said, however, the least we could have is someone that has a proven civil rights background, not someone that’s gonna handle this heightened, racist, bigoted atmosphere with on-the-job training. Sharpton also warned that Black Americans wouldn’t accept a double standard against Black appointees, noting some hesitance, if not opposition, to granting retired Gen. Lloyd Austin a waiver to be able to serve as defense secretary. If confirmed, Austin would be the nation’s first Black defense secretary. It is interesting to me, I said to the president-elect, that we hear about him needing a waiver. Well, we had two waivers in American history to make a Department of Defense secretary who had been in the military, Sharpton said. We will not accept getting to the Black guy and all of a sudden we’re going to change what we’ve already done twice. I also said when we hear names like a Tony West or like a Deval Patrick, that they should not be held to a different standard than anyone else in American history.West, the chief legal officer at Uber and...-https://www.politico.com//biden-civil-rights-justice-depar

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