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Your Acting AG, A Fellow Chicagoan

January 22, 2009 | 8:19 PM

A DOJ reminder of note ...

Until/if (likely until) AG Nom. Eric Holder is confirmed, there's a Chicagoan and former editor of the Harvard Law Review keeping the seat warm for him. But the able place holder, who like Pres. Obama also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, is also a George W. Bush appointee.

Mark Filip, who was United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois before being nominated in March 2008 to serve as Dep. AG, is at the helm.

In Washington these days, the Second City reigns supreme ...

(JS)

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