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- 1 2 Brooks, James (December 5, 2018). "Dunleavy attorney general appointee Kevin Clarkson is lawyer with ties to religious-liberty causes". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
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- ↑ "Governor names new attorney general: Treg Taylor replaces Ed Sniffen, whom Dunleavy named to the post less than two weeks earlier". Juneau Empire . January 29, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
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