4. She’ll bring some national-security bonafides to the table.

The office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York—one of the nation’s busiest districts—handles federal prosecutions for Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in New York City and for Long Island. Because of the number of terrorism cases it oversees, the office is renowned for its national-security expertise. Her office recently won convictions in a foiled al-Qaida-sanctioned plot to blow up New York City subways. These skills will be critical, since the next attorney general will likely take over counterterror initiatives targeting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.

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