t. e. Barack Obama assumed office as President of the United States on January 20, 2009, and his term ended on January 20, 2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution .
· "The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition." Because they were asked to tender their resignations, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may choose not to accept some of them.
· PolitiFact | Obama appointed 45 czars to replace elected officials, chain email claims Chain email stated on June 18, 2014 in a chain email: Says Barack Obama is the "first president to appoint 45...
· Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench: this includes nine African-American circuit court judges, and the appointment of 53 African American ...
Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, was the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General.
Loretta Lynch, in full Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.), American lawyer who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general (2015–17).
Loretta LynchIn office April 27, 2015 – January 20, 2017PresidentBarack ObamaDeputySally YatesPreceded byEric Holder20 more rows
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All US Attorneys Appointed by Obama Told to Resign. With no warning or fanfare, the Trump administration on Friday fired 46 federal prosecutors who had served in the Justice Department under President Barack Obama.
Obama kept on Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Attorney for Maryland appointed by President George W. Bush. And Trump had initially indicated that he would keep Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan. According to media reports, Trump invited Bharara to a meeting at Trump Tower after the election. Bharara told reporters afterward ...
President Bill Clinton fired all 93 U.S. attorneys on the same day in March 1993. Current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was one of those fired by Clinton. He was serving as the U.S. Attorney in Alabama at the time.
Current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was one of those fired by Clinton. He was serving as the U.S. Attorney in Alabama at the time. But many new presidents choose to gradually phase out holdover prosecutors. Obama kept on Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Attorney for Maryland appointed by President George W. Bush.
According to media reports, Trump invited Bharara to a meeting at Trump Tower after the election. Bharara told reporters afterward that both Trump and Sessions had asked him to stay on the job.
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is the choice for secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration.
Susan Rice is Barack Obama's choice for United Nations Ambassador; he plans to reinstate the Ambassador as a cabinet-rank position. During President Bill Clinton's second term, Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. 19. of 20.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a Cabinet-level office, is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The OMB Director oversees the President's "Management Agenda" and reviews agency regulations. The OMD Director develops the President's annual budget request.
A cabinet is authorized in Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The Secretary of State is the highest-ranking cabinet official; this Secretary is fourth in succession to the Presidency. Cabinet officers are titular heads of the 15 permanent executive agencies of the government.
The President's cabinet is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the Executive Branch of government. Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and confirmed or rejected by the Senate. A cabinet is authorized in Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
The Secretary of State is the head of the U.S. Department of State, which focuses on foreign affairs.
There have been 15 Secretaries of Transportation since Lyndon B. Johnson carved the agency out of the Department of Commerce in 1966. Elizabeth Hanford Dole is one of the better-known Secretaries, having served as a Senator from North Carolina; she is also the wife of Republican Senator and presidential candidate Robert Dole.
Says Barack Obama is the "first president to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.". National.
Paul C. Light , New York University professor of public service, said "Obama has set the record" for appointing czars and has "defined czar down to the point that the term no longer has any punch.".
Constitution (Article II, Section 2) states that officers of the United States must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. A position is an office if it is "invested by legal authority with a portion of the sovereign powers of the federal Government" and "continuing" in nature. Commissioned military officers and cabinet secretaries fall under this definition.
Commissioned military officers and cabinet secretaries fall under this definition. But Congress may also allow the president alone to appoint "inferior officers" -- advisers and directors often working in the White House who are not vetted or confirmed by the Senate. "Czars" often fall into this category.
From what we can tell, the term is subjective enough that the Judicial Watch number is a rough estimate, too -- including any appointed position they see as potentially damaging to the system of checks and balances.
The 300+ Obama-nominated judges are considered to be the most diverse group in U.S. history in terms of terms of gender, ethnicity, and nationality.
Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench: this includes nine African-American circuit court judges, and the appointment of 53 African American district court judges—26 of whom are African-American women. Indeed, Obama appointed more African-American women than any president in history.
As of Thursday, Obama has granted commutations to more than 1,600 people—more than any other president in history. That legacy, tied to the legal system and the nation’s history of sentencing inequities is significant, according to many criminal justice advocates.
Obama’s appointments also extended to the United States Court of International Trade, the Tax Court, Court of Federal Claims, Courts of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims and for the Armed Forces.
Judd cited a study co-written by Robert A. Carp , a political science professor at the University of Houston which noted that the Commander in Chief elevated hundreds of African-Americans and other lawyers of color to the nation’s federal courts.
Martin noted in particular, Obama’s selection of Loretta Lynch as the nation’s first African American woman to serve as Attorney General heading the Justice Department. “His judicial legacy is one in which African Americans, Latinos and the LGBT community were represented.
The 44th president has often expressed that when he assumed office in 2009, his Administration was immediately confronted with pressing concerns: inheriting two global wars and the threat of a modern day Great Depression, among them.
Lincoln was a wartime president who famously struggled to find generals that shared his strategic vision of victory. Obama also seems to be in search of generals who share his strategic vision.
Geraldo’s approach would also limit the role of Iranian-supported Shiite militias in the conflict, and Iranian influence as a whole. Actually, it is unlikely that the generals disagree much with Geraldo professionally, but are being stymied by the president.
Obama appears to be leading his generals down a strategic rabbit hole. They are in a difficult position to be sure, legally required to defer to civilian leadership, even when that leadership proves to be incompetent or worse. While they might not be cashiered or forced to resign like so many of their predecessors, in the judgment of history, they may come to regret that.
Those mistaken assessments, along with Obama’s delusional Iran policy, are largely responsible for the current crises in the Middle East. An important question is whether the generals currently dealing with the situation are Obama’s men. If they are and if they go about blindly implementing this administration’s policies without legally acceptable pushback or principled resignations, Obama’s string of foreign-policy disasters promises to widen considerably, at great cost to America and our allies.
Actually , it is unlikely that the generals disagree much with Geraldo professionally, but are being stymied by the president. What’s worrisome is that in recent testimony both Austin and Dempsey have defended administration policy and painted an optimistic picture of the anti-ISIS campaign, without much to show on the ground. Worse still, Dempsey seems to be endorsing increasing Iranian involvement in the ground campaign, a strategic disaster in the making, even while Austin recently called Iran a “ malign influence .”
The total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 329, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 55 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 268 judges to the United States district courts, and four judges to the United States Court of International Trade.
He also elevated two chief judges of the Court of Federal Claims. On the Article IV territorial courts, President Obama made two appointments and elevated one judge to the position of chief judge.
Following is a comprehensive list of all Article III and Article IV United States federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama during his presidency, as well as a partial list of Article I federal judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 24. So far, Biden has nominated 11 former Obama administration officials to his Cabinet. Chandan Khanna/AFP. While more than half of Biden's current appointments are Obama officials, the president-elect has named some newcomers to his Cabinet.
Klain is not the only one to serve in three different administrations. Of the Obama officials Biden has picked for his Cabinet, Anthony Bilken and Janet Yellen have also held top-level positions in the Clinton administration.
As President-elect Joe Biden assembles his Cabinet, several familiar faces have been reinstated to their positions in presidential politics. Of the 19 individuals Biden has appointed so far, nearly 60 percent are officials from the Obama administration.
Biden has also nominated Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Katherine Tai as United States trade representative and Michael Regan as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
During Clinton's presidency, he served in the State Department and on the National Security Council. Yellen , who has been tapped as treasury secretary, was nominated by Obama as chair of the Federal Reserve. She chaired the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration.
Among this list are Commander Lloyd Austin, who Biden nominated as his defense secretary and who served as the commander of the United States Central Command under former President Barack Obama, as well as Alejandro Mayorkas, who has been tapped as the secretary of homeland security, a department he served in during the Obama years.
Avril Haines is expected to serve as director of national intelligence in the new Cabinet. She was previously the deputy national security adviser under Obama and the first woman to be deputy director of the CIA.