President-elect Barack Obama began stocking the new Justice Department this week, announcing the nominations of four well-known players to key posts, including deputy attorney general, the department’s No. 2 spot.

That nod went to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s David Ogden, a former head of the department’s Civil Division under President Bill Clinton who has been overseeing the DOJ transition work for Obama. Ogden’s nomination had been seen as preordained by Washington lawyers and insiders for weeks.

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