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January 20, 2017. January 30, 2017. Dismissed by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769. Deputy Attorney General. January 10, 2015. January 30, 2017. General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dana Boente.
The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States. Under ... Trump on January 20, 2017, then-Attorney ... United States Attorney General ...
President-elect Trump announced his first post-election Cabinet nominee, Jeff Sessions for the role of United States Attorney General, on November 18, 2016. (Trump had earlier announced Mike Pence as his pick for vice-presidential running mate in July 2016, which was shortly thereafter confirmed by the delegates to the Republican National ...
President Trump nominated 86 people to be U.S. attorneys, and 84 of them were confirmed. There are a total of 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice. During Trump's term, seven U.S. attorneys named were women, including acting attorneys, and one of his first 42 appointments was a woman. Seven individuals named to vacancies among the 93 ...
William Barr. William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020. Born and raised in New York City, Barr was educated at the Horace Mann ...
President-elect Trump announced on November 18, 2016, that he would nominate Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. [62] Trump would later state in an August 22, 2018, interview with Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt that the only reason he nominated Sessions was because Sessions was an original supporter during his presidential ...
Following President Trump's election, there were around 4,000 political appointment positions which the incoming Trump administration needed to review, and fill or confirm, of which 1,212 required Senate confirmation. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Washington Post has identified 757 key positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation.
Education. University of Iowa (BA, MBA, JD) Matthew George Whitaker (born October 29, 1969) is an American lawyer, lobbyist and politician who served as the acting United States Attorney General from November 7, 2018, to February 14, 2019. He was appointed to that position by President Donald Trump after Jeff Sessions resigned at Trump's ...