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For example, upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch left her position, so then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who had also tendered her resignation, was asked to stay on to serve as the acting attorney general until the confirmation of the new attorney general Jeff Sessions ...
U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson had appointed Cox in May 1973 after promising the House Judiciary Committee that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the events surrounding the break-in of the Democratic National Committee's offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. The appointment was created ...
On August 26, 2007, Gonzales submitted his resignation as attorney general with an effective date of September 17, 2007. [6] In a statement on August 27, Gonzales thanked the President for the opportunity to be of service to his country, giving no indication of either the reasons for his resignation or his future plans.
In an eight-page letter, Danielle Sassoon quit her post as acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York instead of dropping the Adams case, saying the New York mayor’s attorneys ...
Gaetz resigned from the lame-duck 118th Congress immediately after Trump announced his choice of the lawmaker as AG Nov. 13. In his resignation letter, Gaetz told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La ...
The acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned from her position in a letter to the attorney general, according to a person familiar with the matter.
John Newton Mitchell (September 5, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the 67th Attorney General of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon and was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division: Eric Dreiband: October 12, 2018 January 8, 2021 [61] Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security: Chad Wolf: November 13, 2019 January 11, 2021 [62] Senior GOP aide on the House Armed Services Committee: Jason Schmid January 12, 2021 [63]