Doug Jones may have lost his Alabama Senate reelection bid, but he’s in the running to become President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general. Yet with the summer’s racial unrest still on the minds of many black leaders, some have voiced their preference for candidates they say can better fight for police and criminal justice reform, as well as expanded voting rights.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson has been one of the black community’s more vocal advocates pushing Biden to name diverse nominees and appointees after they helped him win the White House.
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