Elizabeth Warren Will Serve as Clinton’s Scrutinizer in Chief read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/1395-elizabeth-warren-will-serve-as-clinton-s-scrutinizer-in-chief

With polls and early voting data signaling that Mrs. Clinton is likely to prevail against Mr. Trump in two weeks.

Liberal Democrats are already looking past Election Day and relying on Ms. Warren to become the thorn in chief in Mrs. Clinton’s side, scrutinizing her appointments and agenda.

Mrs. Clinton has vowed that if elected she will work across the aisle with congressional Republicans, but relations with liberals, including Ms. Warren of Massachusetts and Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, could prove quite contentious.

Some Democrats are not waiting for Nov. 8. With Mrs. Clinton’s transition team considering applicants to fill as many as 15 cabinet positions and about 200 subcabinet positions, the left has begun to exert pressure over her potential choices.

“Personnel is policy,” said Robert B. Reich, a secretary of labor during the Clinton administration who supported Mr. Sanders during the nominating fight. Mr. Reich said he anticipated intense resistance to any appointees with ties to Wall Street. “As far I can tell, those discussions have already begun,” he added.

Asked on Saturday whether she had thought about her cabinet appointments, Mrs. Clinton told reporters onboard her campaign plane: “No, I really haven’t. I’m a little superstitious about that.”

But that has not stopped liberals from voicing concerns. “We need a secretary of the Treasury who is prepared to take on the greed and recklessness of Wall Street, not someone who comes from Wall Street,” Mr. Sanders wrote in an email on Monday.

“We need an attorney general who will enforce antitrust legislation,” he added, in light of AT&T’s proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.

Democrats frequently point to Ms. Warren as a model for how to gain the public’s attention in effectively blocking appointments.

Last year she foiled President Obama’s appointment of Antonio Weiss, a senior investment banker at Lazard, to a top Treasury Department post, a coup that thrilled the left when Mr. Weiss withdrew his name. If she is elected, Mrs. Clinton will face similar pressures filling cabinet positions.

From the left, the most scrutinized of those choices would be for Treasury secretary. Front-runners for the post include Lael Brainard, a Federal Reserve governor, and Sarah Bloom Raskin, a deputy Treasury secretary and former state banking regulator.

Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said that her singular focus was winning in November and that speculation about personnel in her potential Clinton administration “is entirely premature.”

Before she became a senator, Ms. Warren, who has taken aim at the financial deregulation of the Bill Clinton era, criticized Mrs. Clinton, then a New York senator, for shifting positions to support bankruptcy legislation that would have made it more difficult for families to receive debt relief.

But the two Democrats have since formed a warm alliance. Ms. Warren was vetted as a possible running mate and has proved a potent surrogate, bringing her populist appeal and quirky straight talk to a campaign that has struggled to connect with young voters and liberals.

And few surrogates have been able to rattle Mr. Trump like Ms. Warren, who has called the Republican nominee a “thin-skinned bully who thinks humiliating women at 3 a.m. qualifies him to be president.”

 Ms. Warren took furious aim at Mr. Trump’s comments about women and the sexual assault allegations against him.