Doug Jones seemed to do a nice job helping Jackson get through the Senate process.
Will he land another job with the Biden Administration? It's too bad he is not the attorney general.
https://news.yahoo.com/doug-jones-got-jackson-scotus-083000305.html
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The day after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement, a reporter emailed Jones to ask whether the White House was asking him to guide President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee through the arduous Senate confirmation process — known as being a sherpa. The former Alabama Democratic senator admitted it wasn’t exactly top of mind.
“The thought … had not really been on my radar,” Jones said in an interview with POLITICO. “I did not respond. But I did send it off to my contacts at the White House. And the next thing I know, they're calling me back saying: ‘if you're interested, we're interested.’”
Notably, Jones was brought in even before Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was picked as the president’s nominee — a vote of confidence for a friend so committed that Jones tweeted an endorsement the same day that Biden announced his White House bid. And Jones directly counseled the president as he made his final decision on Jackson, putting it this way: “I gave my advice to the president, and that's about all I'm gonna say.”
Jones’ path seems tailor-made for this moment. He was passed over by Biden for a Cabinet position, but now, after 15 months out of office, the well-liked former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer — during Breyer’s time as chief counsel, even — has returned to his old stomping grounds. Now that Jones is on the brink of a successful Jackson confirmation, his easy embrace of the sherpa role could help with any future ambitions within the Biden White House.
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President Biden will decide not to run in 2024 we will have a primary. No, Harris will not automatically be the nominee and I will hope that Jones will consider throwing his hat into the race.
