Feb 09, 2021 · President Joe Biden's nominee for attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 22 and 23 for his confirmation hearing.
Jan 08, 2021 · Biden on Thursday also named his picks for a slate of other top justice department officials: Lisa Monaco, a former homeland security adviser to …
Jan 07, 2021 · Biden selected Garland over former Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) and former deputy attorney general Sally Yates, choosing to elevate the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals in D.C ...
Joe Biden Announces his Pick for Attorney General. As Congress is about to descend into hours of debate over the 2020 election results, Joe Biden has made his pick for attorney general. It’s ...
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Meet the Attorney General Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as the 86th Attorney General of the United States on March 11, 2021.4 days ago
President-elect Joe Biden selected Garland for the position of United States attorney general, with news of the selection coming on January 6, 2021. He was formally nominated by Biden on January 20, after Biden took office.
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Hon Suella Braverman QCThe Rt Hon Suella Braverman QC MP Suella Braverman was appointed Attorney General on 13 February 2020. She was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from January to November 2018. Suella was elected as the Conservative MP for Fareham in May 2015.
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Merrick Garland delivers remarks after being nominated U.S. attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 7, 2021. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.
It also seems highly likely that Biden was influenced by Garland's Supreme Court nomination: Giving Garland the nod for attorney general is understandable, both as a reward to Garland for enduring public disappointment and humiliation in service to the Obama administration's agenda and as a way to troll McConnell, who has lost his power to stop Garland's confirmation.
Before entering elected office, she was a US Attorney and graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree, gained a law degree at Yale, and went to Cornell medical school according to the Biden transition team press release.
Attorney, Doctor, and military veteran Joanna Beden as his Attorney General.