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Published 1/5/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama filled top Justice Department posts on Monday with four former Clinton administration lawyers, including naming the Harvard Law School dean to argue the government's position in U.S. Supreme Court cases.
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