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Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York under Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001), George W. Bush (2001) and Obama (2010–2015).
On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for United States attorney general, after the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for that position. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] On January 29, 2025, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination in a 12–10 vote, with all Democrats opposing her nomiantion.
Attorney General: William Barr [1] February 14, 2019 (Confirmed February 14, 2019, 54–45) [2] December 23, 2020 Deputy Attorney General: Jeffrey A. Rosen: May 22, 2019 (Confirmed May 16, 2019, 52–45) [3] January 20, 2021 Associate Attorney General: Claire McCusker Murray: May 14, 2019 January 20, 2021 Solicitor General: Jeff Wall: July 3 ...
Sally Yates was Trump's first acting attorney general in 2017, but Trump fired her after just 10 days when she refused to enforce or defend his new Muslim ban that restricted travel to the United ...
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.
Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20, 2017, Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days. Trump dismissed Yates for insubordination on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769, which ...
Jeffrey Clark, a former assistant attorney general, has already been considered by Trump for attorney general. Trump conferred with Clark about aggressively challenging 2020 election results and ...
Melania Knauss Trump [a] [5] (born Melanija Knavs, [b] April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model who is the first lady of the United States since 2025 as wife of the current president Donald Trump. She previously held the role from 2017 to 2021.