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President Biden will make many nominations to key roles in the Department of Justice, including the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and solicitor general. As with all other nominations, almost all of them have to be confirmed by the United States Senate before they can start their service.
President Biden nominated 76 people to be U.S. attorneys: 68 of the nominations were confirmed by the U.S. Senate, five stalled inn the Senate, one was withdrawn after Senate confirmation, and three others were withdrawn before Senate action. There are a total of 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice stated that Garland cannot be prosecuted for contempt due to Biden's invocation of executive privilege. [ 192 ] House speaker Mike Johnson said he will move in federal court to enforce a subpoena against Garland to obtain audio recordings of Biden, after the Justice Department declined to act on the House's contempt ...
Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates; Cabinet of Joe Biden, for the vetting process undergone by top-level roles including advice and consent by the Senate; Sr. Advisor to the President, the role formerly held by Karl Rove under George W. Bush, then by Valerie Jarrett/David Axelrod/etc. under Barack Obama
Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden secured his 235th appointment to the federal judiciary on Friday, narrowly surpassing President-elect Donald Trump's first-term tally by one with a record ...
Upon taking office, Biden quickly placed more than 1,000 high-level officials into roles that did not require confirmation. [1] As of December 3, 2024 [update] , according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service covering 810 positions, 673 nominees have been confirmed by the United States Senate , 2 are being ...
The DOJ under Kanter also brought cases that successfully block a tie up between JetBlue and American, JetBlue's proposed $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines and the $2.2 billion merger of ...
On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. [8] Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman as attorney general and Benjamin H. Bristow as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of Justice ...