May 13, 2019 · Rod J. Rosenstein was sworn in as the 37th Deputy Attorney General of the United States on April 26, 2017, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Rosenstein graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, in 1986. He earned his J.D. cum laude in 1989 from Harvard Law School, where ...
May 10, 2017 · The Bush administration nominated Rosenstein to the federal appeals court in Richmond in 2007, but his nomination was blocked by Maryland’s two Democratic senators at the time, Barbara Mikulski and...
May 11, 2017 · Then, it took a long time to get a deputy attorney general in place. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy—and the man who wrote the rationale for axing Comey—faced similar Democratic delays and was not ...
In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated him to be Maryland’s U.S. attorney. Rosenstein stayed in that position for 12 years. He was the only U.S. attorney appointed by Bush who was asked to stay on by President Barack Obama throughout his eight-year term. Rosenstein's relationship with Trump
Jul 09, 2019 · Rod Rosenstein (born Rod Jay Rosenstein on January 13, 1965) is an American attorney and former criminal prosecutor who investigated tax fraud and public corruption before being tapped by Republican President George W. Bush to serve in the Department of Justice as a U.S. attorney in Maryland. Rosenstein enjoyed support and respect from Republicans and …
Jeff Sessions | |
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Deputy | Dana Boente (acting) Rod Rosenstein |
Preceded by | Loretta Lynch |
Succeeded by | William Barr |
United States Senator from Alabama |
Matthew Whitaker | |
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Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
Succeeded by | William Barr |
Chief of Staff to the United States Attorney General | |
In office September 22, 2017 – November 7, 2018 |
California Department of Justice | |
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Agency executives | Kevin Gardner, Chief, Div. of Law Enforcement Joe Dominic, Chief, Div. of Criminal Justice Information Services Gerald Engler, Chief/Asst. AG, Div. of Criminal Law Kathleen Kenealy, Chief/Asst. AG, Div. of Civil Law Mark Breckler, Chief/Asst. AG, Div. of Public Rights |
After joining the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990, Mr. Rosenstein prosecuted public corruption cases as a trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to nominate Mr. Rosenstein on January 31, 2017. The Senate confirmed his nomination on April 25, 2017.
Rod Rosenstein probably never expected to be in the spotlight so often while serving in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Rosenstein, born in Pennsylvania, joined the Justice Department in 1990 and moved up the organization over the span of 27 years.
Rosenstein's long career as a government attorney began in 1990, when he first joined the Department of Justice as a trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division. From there, he launched into decades of prosecuting drug dealers, white-collar criminals and public corruption. As the U.S. attorney for Maryland, Rosenstein pressed for longer sentences for felons and battled inner-city gangs.
Rod Rosenstein was born and raised in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where his father operated a small business and his mother served on a local school board. It was there, he said at his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate, that he learned "straightforward values."
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Ken Starr testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Independent Counsel Act in April 1999. (Getty)
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On Monday, Rosenstein wrote in his resignation letter to Trump, “We keep the faith, we follow the rules, and we always put America first.”. Rosenstein went to the White House Monday and personally delivered his resignation letter to the President, according to an administration official and a Justice Department official.
In January 2018, CNN reported Trump had been venting about Rosenstein and at times said he wanted Rosenstein removed. One source told CNN the President made comments like “let’s fire him, let’s get rid of him” but his advisers told him it was a bad idea. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, submitted his resignation letter to the White House Monday. It is effective May 11.
In the days after Trump fired Comey, Rosenstein discussed wearing a “wire” to record conversations with Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office , The New York Times first reported and CNN later confirmed.
US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of Califor nia, speaks at her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2021.