Republican lawyers have spent eight years waiting in the wings for their next shot at top jobs in the Justice Department and White House. With Donald Trump as president-elect, though, there are complications for would-be appointees, at least those with traditional GOP credentials.
So far the names surfacing as candidates for U.S. attorney general in Trump’s administration—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama—are politicians loyal to Trump but who have detractors in the Republican legal community.
