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Walter Mondale,(1928-2021) The Good Fight (2010) (Chapter 1, Edited). Thoughts on his time serving as the Attorney General of Minnesota
The opening chapter (edited) of Walter Mondale's The Good Fight, A Life in Liberal Politics (Scribner, 2010) covers Former Vice President Mondale's time as the Attorney General of Minnesota from 1960 to 1964 at which time he became a member of the United State Senate. This brief edited chapter breezily touches upon almost all of the issues that attorneys general face today, e.g. the role of the common law in the absence of statutes, statutory construction, the friction that occurs when a state “client” agency operates illegally, the outsourcing legal work, cooperation with the attorneys general from other states, U.S. Supreme Court advocacy on federal issues, the choice of when to litigate and when to settle. It also discusses the personal motivation and sacrifices that drove Mondale and shaped the culture of his time as Attorney General of Minnesota.
The chapter is testimony that for all of the changes in the legal and political world, some things remain remarkably the same.
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