Oct 18, 2021 · United States Attorney Years served; Benjamin D. Silliman: 1865-1866: Benjamin F. Tracy: 1866-1876: Asa W. Tenney: 1877-1885: Mark D. Wilbur: 1885-1889: Jesse Johnson
Each U.S. attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer within his or her particular jurisdiction, acting under the guidance of the United States Attorneys' Manual. They supervise district offices with as many as 350 assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs) and as many as 350 support personnel. An Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA), or ...
Rich served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan (1980-1981). He previously served as the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney (1977-1980) and as the Chief Deputy Federal Defender (1972-1975) in Detroit.
Aug 15, 2016 · 118.2 Records of U.S. Attorneys, Southern Judicial District of Alabama 1824-1921. 118.3 Records of U.S. Attorneys, Alaska Judicial District 1913-61. 118.4 Records of U.S. Attorneys, Arizona Judicial District 1899-1972. 118.5 Records of U.S. Attorneys, Arkansas Judicial Districts 1849-1973.
District | United States Attorney |
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New York, Eastern | Breon S. Peace * |
New York, Northern | Carla B. Freedman * |
New York, Southern | Damian Williams * |
New York, Western | Trini E. Ross * |
Rank | Firm | Country with the most lawyers |
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1 | Kirkland & Ellis | United States |
2 | Latham & Watkins | United States |
3 | DLA Piper (verein) | United States |
4 | Baker McKenzie (verein) | United States |
History and statutory authority. The Office of the United States Attorney was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 , along with the office of Attorney General and the United States Marshals Service. The same act also specified the structure of the Supreme Court of the United States and established inferior courts making up ...
Operational support, Coordination with other components of the United States Department of Justice and other federal agencies. These responsibilities include certain legal, budgetary, administrative, and personnel services, as well as legal education.
Administrative management direction and oversight, Operational support, Coordination with other components of the United States Department of Justice and other federal agencies. These responsibilities include certain legal, budgetary, administrative, and personnel services, as well as legal education.
An Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA), or federal prosecutor, is a public official who represents the federal government on behalf of the U.S. Attorney (USA) in criminal prosecutions, and in certain civil cases as either the plaintiff or the defendant.
Appointed by President Reagan, Dick Thornburgh was sworn in as Attorney General on August 12, 1988.
The University of Virginia School of Law is offering a new course this fall entitled “The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel.” It will be taught by NAFUSA member Bob Mueller and three members of his team. Mueller led the nearly two-year-long inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia and its potential interference in the 2016 election. Over six in-person sessions, they will take a chronological look at the investigation and the function of a special counsel. The course will focus on the key decisions made during the course of the investigation and the challenges and tradeoffs presented by those decisions.#N#Mueller was a United States Marine Corps officer, an Assistant United States Attorney in three different offices, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, and the longest-serving Director of the FBI since J. Edgar Hoover. He earned his law degree in 1973 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Law Review. He is currently a partner at WilmerHale in Washington.
The first, Sting Like A Butterfly, was published in 2020. Paul Coggins is the co-chair of the White Collar and Government Investigations Section of Locke Lord. He is the former United States Attorney for the Northern District ...
The 2022 NAFUSA conference is confirmed at the Hotel del Coronado. Golf for those that are interested will be held at Torrey Pines north course the morning of Wednesday April 6, 2022. Conference will kick off Wednesday evening with an event from 6:30-9:30pm at the hotel on the beach. CLE programs will be Thursday and Friday from 8:00am ...
Scott retired in 2008 as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve after 23 years of service as an infantry officer. He earned his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University.
Please join us in celebrating the legacy of former U.S. Attorney and Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh, who passed away December 31 at age 88, and the inspiration of his career in public service.
Thomas Sullivan, 91, Dies. June 5, 2021. Thomas Sullivan, who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1977-1981, died on May 18 at his home in Wilmette, Illinois. He was 91.
First case brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Sixth Division (Fergus Falls, MN), 1910. In all approximately 1,600 cases were initiated, both civil and criminal, though most were settled out of court. Largely concluded by 1922, but appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court kept certain suits active until 1927.
History: United States Court for China established by an act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 814). Abolished when the United States relinquished all extraterritorial rights in China by a treaty of January 11, 1943 (57 Stat. 767).
Attorney General Gonzales, in a confidential memorandum dated March 1, 2006, delegated authority to senior DOJ staff Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson to hire and dismiss political appointees and some civil service positions.
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."
Officials who resigned. 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.
Kevin Ryan (R) Though described as "loyal to the Bush administration," he was allegedly fired for the possible controversy that negative job performance evaluations might cause if they were released. John McKay (R) Was given a positive job evaluation 7 months before he was fired.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy stated that Congress has the authority to subpoena Justice Department and White House officials including chief political advisor to the president Karl Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers. On March 20, President Bush declared in a press conference that his aides would not testify under oath on the matter if subpoenaed by Congress. Bush explained his position saying,
Sampson's replacement as the Attorney General's temporary chief of staff was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Chuck Rosenberg. Rosenberg initiated a DOJ inquiry into possibly inappropriate political considerations in Monica Goodling's hiring practices for civil service staff. Civil service positions are not political appointments and must be made on a nonpartisan basis. In one example, Jeffrey A. Taylor, former interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, tried to hire a new career prosecutor, Seth Adam Meinero, in the fall of 2006. Goodling judged Meinero too "liberal" and declined to approve the hire. Meinero, a Howard University law school graduate who had worked on civil rights cases at the Environmental Protection Agency, was serving as a special assistant prosecutor in Taylor's office. Taylor went around Goodling, and demanded Sampson's approval to make the hire. In another example, Goodling removed an attorney from her job at the Department of Justice because she was rumored to be a lesbian, and, further, blocked the attorney from getting other Justice Department jobs she was qualified for. Rules concerning hiring at the Justice department forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation.
A number of members of both houses of Congress publicly said Gonzales should resign, or be fired by Bush. On March 14, 2007, Senator John E. Sununu ( R, New Hampshire) became the first Republican lawmaker to call for Gonzales' resignation. Sununu cited not only the controversial firings but growing concern over the use of the USA PATRIOT Act and misuse of national security letters by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Calls for his ousting intensified after his testimony on April 19, 2007. By May 16, at least twenty-two Senators and seven Members of the House of Representatives — including Senators Hillary Clinton ( D, New York) and Mark Pryor ( D, Arkansas )— had called for Gonzales' resignation.
Here's what's at stake.
"Having experience as a prosecutor probably tells you something about where people's values were when they decided to get a job as a lawyer at the beginning," says O'Toole.
The problem isn't that mediocre prosecutors get rewarded with federal judgeships, much less slots on the Supreme Court. It's the opposite.
Obviously, the problem of Supreme Court justices seeing the law as it should be practiced, rather than as it actually is, is something too deep for any president to fix with a single appointment.