With the announcement earlier this month that acting Attorney General John Hoffman will leave his post in March to become senior vice president and general counsel at Rutgers University, speculation has begun over who will be his successor, and whether Gov. Chris Christie will make a formal nomination.

Christie, who recently dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for president has a little less than two years remaining in office, and may choose to merely name another acting attorney general, some observers said.

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