President-elect Joe Biden has separated himself from years of presidential precedent by not choosing an attorney general until the end of the election year.
He is lagging behind the last three presidential transition teams, and his transition team said on Wednesday that no other cabinet-level nominee was expected until 2021.
President Trump announced his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, on November 18, 2016, according to the Department of Justice.
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President-elect Joe Biden leaves after speaking at The Queen Theater on December 28 in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)
Former President Obama announced Eric Holder on December 1, 2008, and former President George W. Bush announced John Ashcroft on December 22, 2000.
The last president not to have appointed his attorney general by the end of the year was Bill Clinton, who chose Janet Reno in February 1993. Prior to that, former President George HW Bush transferred Reagan-era attorney general Richard Thornburgh , to start term. Bush had been vice president of former president Ronald Reagan.
The Biden-Harris transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Potential candidates include Alabama exit senator Doug Jones, who led the lawsuit against members of the Ku Klux Klan who killed four girls in the bombing of a black church in Alabama; Judge Merrick Garland, formerly appointed to the Supreme Court; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a former state attorney general; and former deputy attorney general Sally Yates.
Delaying in choosing the president-elect is also a potential federal case against his son, Hunter Biden, because of his tax affairs.
Biden weighed in last week, without suggesting his choice.
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“I am going to appoint someone who I hope will enforce the law as the law is written, not guided by me,” he said during a news conference.
The Biden-Harris transition team announced a series of new White House and Defense Department officials on Wednesday.