Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general
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Top Republicans are warning against President-elect Joe Biden picking former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to helm the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Yates has been floated as being on Biden's shortlist to lead the DOJ, but Republicans are warning she would be a tough, if not impossible, confirmation fight.
"I think there's plenty of people that he wouldn't have to take a chance on her," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who will chair the Judiciary Committee if Republicans keep control of the Senate. He added that Yates's ties to the FBI's 2016 Russia investigation were "very worrisome."
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