Joe Biden hasn’t wrapped up the Democratic nomination for president, but there’s already chatter about who could be in his Cabinet.
Confidants of the former vice president are privately discussing the possibility of picking California Sen. Kamala Harris or former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates for the attorney general nomination, according to Axios.
Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California before her election to the Senate. Her record as a prosecutor complicated her presidential candidacy, especially her controversial policy to address truancy.
Biden has floated Harris as a potential vice presidential pick, Supreme Court nominee, or attorney general.
“She is capable of being president or vice president or on the Supreme Court or attorney general. Her capacity is unlimited,” he said after she ended her presidential bid in December.
Harris endorsed Biden on Sunday, as the former vice president consolidates Democratic support around his candidacy.
Yates, a career federal prosecutor, was fired by President Trump after she refused to enforce the administration’s travel ban. Yates was temporarily acting chief of the Justice Department while Trump’s attorney general nominee, Jeff Sessions, awaited confirmation.
Georgia Democrats tried to court Yates, who now practices law in Atlanta, to run for governor in 2018 or Senate in 2020, but she declined both times.
