T he Democrat Phil Weiser decided to run for Colorado attorney general the night Donald Trump was elected president, he explains earnestly in a recent campaign ad.. “Ever since, I’ve been ...
· Four decades later, President Richard Nixon appointed his campaign manager, John N. Mitchell as Attorney General, a position he held from January 1969 to March 1972. Mitchell was regarded as one ...
Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General, former White House Counsel; Kyle Sampson, Chief of Staff to the Attorney General; Michael A. Battle, Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys; Michael Elston, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General; Monica Goodling, Justice Department's liaison to the White House; William W. Mercer, U.S. Attorney, Acting Associate …
John Newton Mitchell, 67th Attorney General . Mitchell served as attorney general (President Nixon) from Jan. 20, 1969 to Feb. 15, 1972. He was born in Detroit, MI (Sept. 5, 1913) and attended Fordham University and St. John's University Law School. He served in the Navy during WWII. He was Nixon's former law partner and 1968 campaign manager.
Bell served as attorney general (President Carter) from Jan. 26, 1977 to Aug. 16, 1979. He was born in Americus, GA (Oct. 31, 1918) and attended Georgia Southwestern College and Mercer Univerity Law School. He was a major in the US Army in WWII. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Bell to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Bell led the effort to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978. He served on President George H.W. Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform and was counsel to President Bush during the Iran-Contra affair.
Levi served as attorney general (President Bush) from Jan. 14, 1975 to Jan. 20, 1977. He was born in Chicago, IL (May 9, 1942) and attended the University of Chicago and Yale University. During WWII, he served in the DOJ Anti-Trust Division. Before being named AG, he was served in various leadership roles at the the Univeristy of Chicago, being named president in 1968. He was also a member of the White House Task Force on Education, 1966 to 1967. Died March 7, 2000.
The US Attorney General (AG) is the head of the US Department of Justice and is the chief law enforcement officer of the US government. These are the Attorney Generals from 1960 to 1980.
Kleindienst served as attorney general (President Nixon) from Feb. 15, 1972 to May 25, 1973. He was born in Winslow, AZ (Aug. 5, 1923) and attended Harvard University. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. Kleindienst served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1953 to 1954. He was in private practice before becoming Deputy AG in 1969. He resigned in the midst of the Watergate scandal, the same day (April 30, 1973) that John Dean was fired and H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman quit. He was convicted of a misdemeanor for perjury during his testimony in the Senate during his confirmation hearings. Died Feb. 3, 2000.
Richardson served as attorney general (President Nixon) from May 25, 1973 to Oct. 20, 1973. He was born in Boston, MA (July 20, 1920) and attended Harvard University. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1945. He was Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Legislation 1957 to 1959.
This is a list of political appointments of current officeholders made by the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump .
Miscimarra was first sworn in as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board on August 7, 2013 for a term that expires on December 16, 2017. ... MacDougall was designated acting Chair of the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission in January 2017.
The rules of the Senate require that when the term of the Senate expires (in the case of the 115th Congress, at noon on January 3, 2019), nominations then pending lapse and are returned to the president, who can resubmit them to the new Congress.
Among Donald Trump's appointments there have been several former Goldman Sachs employees, such as Steven Mnuchin, Steven Bannon, and Gary Cohn, as well as several generals, such as Michael T. Flynn, James Mattis, and John F. Kelly.
In an update on the March 2017 nomination of J. Christopher Giancarlo to the CFTC, the White House submitted his paperwork to the Senate committee in early May. "The paperwork is a prerequisite for the panel to advance the nomination with a hearing and an eventual committee vote, which now may not come until the summer or fall. The committee is said to be waiting for the administration to nominate individuals to fill two more vacancies at the commission before it holds the hearing, according to Senate aides and people familiar with the process," reported the Wall Street Journal.
The change in the law undermined the confirmation authority of the Senate and gave the Attorney General greater appointment powers than the President, since the President's U.S. Attorney appointees are required to be confirmed by the Senate and those of the Attorney General did not require confirmation.
He also stood by his decision to dismiss the attorneys, saying "I stand by the decision and I think it was the right decision". Gonzales admitted that "incomplete information was communicated or may have been communicated to Congress" by Justice Department officials, and said that "I never saw documents. We never had a discussion about where things stood."
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel stated that some of the emails that had involved official correspondence relating to the firing of attorneys may have been lost because they were conducted on Republican party accounts and not stored properly. "Some official e-mails have potentially been lost and that is a mistake the White House is aggressively working to correct." said Stanzel, a White House spokesman. Stonzel said that they could not rule out the possibility that some of the lost emails dealt with the firing of U.S. attorneys. For example, J. Scott Jennings, an aide to Karl Rove communicated with Justice Department officials "concerning the appointment of Tim Griffin, a former Rove aide, as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, according to e-mails released in March, 2007. For that exchange, Jennings, although working at the White House, used an e-mail account registered to the Republican National Committee, where Griffin had worked as a political opposition researcher."
A subsequent report by the Justice Department Inspector General in October 2008 found that the process used to fire the first seven attorneys and two others dismissed around the same time was "arbitrary", "fundamentally flawed" and "raised doubts about the integrity of Department prosecution decisions".
Allegations were that some of the attorneys were targeted for dismissal to impede investigations of Republican politicians or that some were targeted for their failure to initiate investigations that would damage Democratic politicians or hamper Democratic-leaning voters.
On May 2, 2007, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Gonzales compelling the Department of Justice to produce all email from Karl Rove regarding evaluation and dismissal of attorneys that was sent to DOJ staffers, no matter what email account Rove may have used, whether White House, National Republican party, or other accounts, with a deadline of May 15, 2007, for compliance. The subpoena also demanded relevant email previously produced in the Valerie Plame controversy and investigation for the 2003 CIA leak scandal.
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 6. He said that the seven were fired for job performance issues and not political considerations; these statements lead several of the dismissed attorneys, who had been previously silent, to come forward with questions about their dismissals, partially because their performance reviews prior to their dismissal had been highly favorable.
Samuel Swartwout was appointed by President Andrew Jackson to the New York City Collector's Office. At the end of his term he had embezzled $1.225 million in customs receipts and used the money to purchase land. He fled to Europe to avoid prosecution.
state that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendments and the Takings Clause do not apply to the president in time of war as defined in the USA Patriot Act.
John Pickering, a federal judge appointed by George Washington, was impeached and convicted in absentia by the US Senate for drunkenness and use of profanity on the bench in spite of the fact neither act was a high crime or misdemeanor. (1804)
Bush, was investigated by the Office of Special Counsel for "improper political influence over government decision-making", as well as for his involvement in several other scandals such as Lawyergate, Bush White House email controversy and Plame affair.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs General Eric Shinseki, resigned after Veterans Administration officials in the Phoenix, AZ, hospital lied about the length of wait times for veterans to see a doctor. See Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014.
Grant 's (R) administration involving whiskey taxes, bribery and kickbacks ending with 110 convictions. (1875) Orville E. Babcock (R), a personal secretary to Grant, was indicted in the Whiskey Ring scandal and ten days later in the Safe Burglary Conspiracy.
In 2007 he was sentenced to two years' probation, 100 hours' community service, and a fine of $2,000. John Albaugh (R) former CoS to Ernest Istook (R-OK), pled guilty to accepting bribes connected to the Federal Highway Bill.
Republicans Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy , David Souter. With the debates that have occurred over the years on controversial Supreme Court Justice nominees such as Clarence Thomas in 1991 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, the question has arisen over whether Supreme Court Justices ...
Gerald Ford only had one Supreme Court nominee, and thought he had selected a solid conservative, but that belief proved to be false, with his selection of John Paul Stevens (1975-2010) the third longest serving justice in history, and second oldest ever at the time of his retirement at age 90. Eight years later Stevens is still active at age 98. Just last week he made headlines when he came out in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment.
Since that time, Democratic Presidents have appointed six justices, none of whom have deviated from the party line. Republican Presidents have appointed 12, five of whom, according to your analysis, have been independent thinkers. Seems to me the Democrats need to ensure more intellectual diversity in their future appointments.
The effect of these seven Republican appointments who turned out to be liberal, moderate, or a “swing vote” was to make the Supreme Court more moderate, rather than overly conservative.
As you point out the last independent thinker appointed by a Democrat was White in 1962 .
Byron White (1962-1993), an appointee of John F. Kennedy, was believed to be a liberal, but instead was a consistent conservative voice on the Court for three decades, surprising Kennedy supporters.
Chief Justice Roberts has occasionally cast surprising votes, as when he upheld “ObamaCare” in 2013, and it is believed he is worried about the public image of the Court, which could lead him in the years ahead to play a centrist’s role like Kennedy.
John Hipple Mitchell Senator (R-OR) was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator (1905). Henry B. Cassel (R-PA) was convicted of fraud related to the construction of the Pennsylvania State Capitol (1909).
Although the convicted politicians are arranged by presidential terms in chronological order, many of the crimes have little or no connection to who is president. Since the passage of 20th Amendment on January 23, 1933, presidential terms have begun on January 20 of the year following the presidential election; prior to that, they began on March 4.
John Dean (R) White House Counsel, convicted of obstruction of justice, later reduced to felony offenses and served 4 months.
Irving Whalley (R-PA) received suspended three-year sentence and fined $11,000 in 1973 for using mails to deposit staff salary kickbacks and threatening an employee to prevent her from giving information to the FBI (1973).
Charles Diggs (D-MI), convicted on 29 charges of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms which formed a kickback scheme with his staff. Sentenced to 3 years (1978).
Earl Butz (R) United States Secretary of Agriculture. He was charged with failing to report more than $148,000 in 1978. Butz pleaded guilty to the tax evasion charge and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation and was ordered to make restitution. He served 25 days behind bars before his release.
Nicholas Mavroules (D-MA) was convicted of extortion, accepting illegal gifts and failing to report them on congressional disclosure and income tax forms. Mavroules pleaded guilty to fifteen counts in April 1993 and was sentenced to a fifteen-month prison term (1993).
Joe Biden, who was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee then, infamously turned the hearings into a hyper-politicized exercise in character assassination. In the end, Thomas was confirmed in a narrow, largely partisan vote— but not before Biden and the Democrats relentlessly dragged his name through the mud.
Justice Neil Gorsuch. Shortly after taking office in 2017, Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, then a federal appellate judge, to fill the seat left vacant by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
Schumer seized on it, saying Gorsuch had been “rebuked” by the Supreme Court and that it was evidence of “a continued, troubling pattern of Judge Gorsuch deciding against everyday Americans — even children who require special assistance at school.”. Meanwhile, the liberal media did its part, as usual.
Every time a Republican president has nominated someone to the Supreme Court in the last 30 years, with one notable exception, Democrats have responded by smearing the nominee with accusations of ideological extremism, racism, misogyny, sexual harassment, plagiarism, and, most infamously in Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s case, gang rape.
During the confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court issued a ruling reversing a decision from the Tenth Circuit that came down against an autistic student whose parents sought reimbursement for his education under a federal law, the Individuals with Disability Education Act.
But the Kavanaugh hearings were not a break with the Democrats’ norms, they were merely an extreme manifestation of a 30-year tradition that began with Robert Bork, President Reagan’s nominee in 1987, whose confirmation hearing was the most divisive and partisan in Supreme Court history up to that point.
During the confirmation hearings, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Roberts, who is Catholic, what “role Catholicism would play” in his tenure as a judge, and his views on the separation of church and state.