Barbara McQuade, Columnist

The White House Lost a Rare Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors

December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

Barbara McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law school, a former US attorney and author of the forthcoming book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government."

Unqualified for the job and appointed unlawfully.
Photographer: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg

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