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Miles Archer

(20,137 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:14 AM 17 hrs ago

I'm looking at all of the Bondi blowback...who would you say was our last GREAT Attorney General?

I'm struggling with this one, and my "political activism" goes as far back as the first George W Bush term...that was my "wake up call." I've shared on DU before that it was actually Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Before I picked up that book, I was 100% unaware of Karl Rove's existence. Once I learned WHO and WHAT he was, I became a "political animal."

I'm not talking "OK" Attorney General, or one who barely squeaked by with "a passing grade." Who was the last TRULY GREAT Attorney General, assuming we actually had one?

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I'm looking at all of the Bondi blowback...who would you say was our last GREAT Attorney General? (Original Post) Miles Archer 17 hrs ago OP
Loretta Lynch perhaps edhopper 17 hrs ago #1
The Garland Society folks would say MG. BannonsLiver 17 hrs ago #2
AG rso 17 hrs ago #3
Robert Kennedy Jr. mwf 17 hrs ago #4
Jr? Sailingdiver 16 hrs ago #5
In my lifetime . . Sailingdiver 16 hrs ago #6
RFK Another Jackalope 15 hrs ago #7

BannonsLiver

(19,604 posts)
2. The Garland Society folks would say MG.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:33 AM
17 hrs ago

I’d say you’d probably have to go back into the Obama or Clinton eras.

mwf

(49 posts)
4. Robert Kennedy Jr.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:40 AM
17 hrs ago

At first I worried about nepotism, but he more than proved his worth in office.

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