I wonder why we haven’t heard any news on the AG front. I think Biden has two different people in mind, a more mainstream nominee should Perdue and Loeffler win and a more liberal nominee if Ossoff and Warnock win.
My read is that he wants Merrick Garland, but he knows that McConnell will likely block any replacement he tries to nominate to Garland’s current seat on the DC court of appeals. If Ds take the two Senate seats in GA then it’s not an issue.
Good pick for Interior. She’s the vice- chair of the committee on Natural Resources and the chair of the subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. She just might know something about the Interior Department. In addition, I really like that she’s Native American and a 35 generation New Mexican. I have hopes that she will not lease out all of our Federal lands to big corporations.
Here’s more on her:
Kamala Harris faces challenging dynamics in White House full of longtime Biden allies: Kamala Harris faces challenging dynamics in White House full of longtime Biden allies
with all the vets Biden picks another crony to run the VA. And shockingly, he’s a white guy. He better watch out he’s near the limit for white guys.
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How will McConnell stop him? 
McConnell won’t be stopping pretty much anything.
For a while at least.
While McConnell’s power has, indeed, been massively reduced by the 2 Dem wins in GA, I think this is an overstatement. With a razor-thin 51-50 majority for the Dems, McConnell and his cronies can still block a LOT of things with the filibuster, unless the Dems somehow grow a spine and kill it, which is not likely to happen. So I would expect continued obstructionism to the limits of what the minority party is generally capable of.
As regards Cabinet picks, though, at this point I doubt McConnell with expend too much energy filibustering many of them. He’ll save it for bigger fish. But the number will be more than zero, that’s for sure.
Assuming the election results hold up, Republicans will still be able to hold up and obstruct nominees, although not indefinitely. One immediate question is what will the committee ratios be? The last time the Senate was 50-50 (2001), they had even numbers of Republicans and Democrats on all of the committees and had to have a special procedure to bring things to the floor if the committee deadlocked. Will Schumer go along with the same arrangement this time?
Merrick Garland for AG. Will find link soon… ahhh, thanks Politico:
I love this pick so much. It’s the hardest slap in the face to Mitch, it allows Biden to select as young of a replacement on the 2nd most important court in the nation, and Garland is eminently qualified for the position.
It’s such an important position, especially now. In my view, Garland is the right pick for this moment.
Good pick on Garland. Someone who definitely will not be a toady for Biden. Someone with integrity and respect for the Constitution and the rule of law. The polar opposite of Billy Barr.
I don’t know much about Garland’s record, but my first thought on hearing this is that it sets up the R’s to be able to say that anything DoJ investigates (eg, that shady KY aluminum deal) about personal vengeance , and that the AG will need to recuse himself because of it.
Of course they’d do that for anyone else, too
Why not? Look the GOP got rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS. Once Mitch becomes obstructive, it’s gone. All it takes is a simple majority. Since the GOP has shown they will dump the filibuster the minute it gets in their way, there is no longer any benefit to keeping it around. Mitch shot himself in the foot with that one.
Manchin has said he’s opposed, and he likely wouldn’t be the only Dem. You need all 50 to torch the filibuster.
Mostly because the moderate Democrats are not on board with it. Senator Manchin said he doesn’t want to get rid of the filibuster for one.
One reason not to is that the Democratic Party will not always be in the majority and eliminating the filibuster is sure to bite them in the ass when they are not.