· (CNN) President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, a long-awaited decision that moved toward completion...
· President-elect Joe Biden has introduced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general along with three others he has selected for senior Justice Department positions By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, STEVE PEOPLES and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press January 7, 2021, 9:25 PM • 5 min read The Associated Press
· Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden 's nominee for attorney general, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Monday.
Tracking President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and appointees Diversity and pace of Senate-confirmed positions ... Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Dept. of Justice: Black: W: 5/25/2021: 37:
As of April 27, 2022, President Biden had nominated 48 people to be U.S. attorneys, and 40 of them were confirmed. There are a total of 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice.
OfficesOfficeNomineeAssumed office— Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Policy)Hampton DellingerNovember 1, 2021 (Confirmed October 28, 2021, 53–37)— Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legislative Affairs)Carlos UriarteAnnounced May 3, 20221 more row
On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier.
Merrick GarlandUnited States Attorney GeneralIncumbent Merrick Garland since March 11, 2021United States Department of JusticeStyleMr. Attorney General (informal) The Honorable (formal)Member ofCabinet National Security Council13 more rows
Merrick GarlandIn office February 12, 2013 – February 11, 2020Preceded byDavid B. SentelleSucceeded bySri SrinivasanJudge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit22 more rows
Jonathan KanterThe head of the Antitrust Division is an Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust (AAG-AT) appointed by the President of the United States. Jonathan Kanter was confirmed as Assistant Attorney General on November 16, 2021.
Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the fifth woman to serve on the court. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020.
Amy Coney Barrett is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Donald Trump (R) on September 29, 2020, to fill the vacancy opened by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The U.S. Senate confirmed Barrett on October 26, 2020, by a vote of 52-48. She received commission the same day.
There have been 37 unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States. Of these, 11 nominees were rejected in Senate roll-call votes, 11 were withdrawn by the president, and 15 lapsed at the end of a session of Congress.
Attorney General Merrick B. GarlandAttorney General Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as the 86th Attorney General of the United States on March 11, 2021. As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Garland leads the Justice Department's 115,000 employees, who work across the United States and in more than 50 countries worldwide.
K. K. VenugopalThe 15th and current Attorney General is K. K. Venugopal....Attorney-General for India.Attorney General for IndiaAbbreviationAGResidenceNew Delhi, IndiaSeatA-144, Neeti Bagh, New Delhi-110049AppointerPresident of India on advice of the Union Cabinet9 more rows
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David Cho is a former U.S. Secret Service agent who was the Special Agent In Charge of the Presidential Protective Division detail for U.S. President Joe Biden....David Cho (Secret Service)David ChoCho pictured in 2019.CitizenshipUnited StatesOccupationDeputy Head of Security for Citadel LLC'sEmployerCitadel LLC
93 United States AttorneysThere are currently 93 United States Attorneys: one for each of the 94 federal judicial districts, except for Guam and the Northern Marianas, where a single U.S. Attorney serves both districts.
Subject to the powers and duties of the Governor, the Attorney General shall be the chief law officer of the State. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to see that the laws of the State are uniformly and adequately enforced.
Obama nominated Garland to the Supreme Court after a vacancy was created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. But Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, refused for months to hold confirmation hearings or the required vote in the chamber.
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.
US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks at her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2021. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters with Vice President Mike Pence in ...
Biden has selected Lisa Monaco, a former homeland security adviser in the Obama administration who has become a close aide to Biden, to be the deputy attorney general, according to a person familiar with the decision.
Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden 's nominee for attorney general, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Monday. Garland is expected to take questions on a variety of topics: the independence of the Justice Department, the Hunter Biden investigation, the Andrew Cuomo nursing home controversy, ...
While most of his career has been in public service, Garland did work in the private sector for a relatively short time at the law firm Arnold & Porter, where he eventually became a partner.
One of the president’s most significant constitutional powers is the ability to staff the top tiers of the executive branch with the advice and consent of the Senate.
This section displays information on Senate-confirmed appointees by presidential administration according to two key demographic factors: The first chart displays gender (via frequency of women appointees), the second displays race/ethnicity. The data is through the first 300 days of each administration. See full notes on the data here.
This section displays the frequency of Senate-confirmed appointees at the 100-, 200-, and 300-day marks within the first year of a presidency. The first figure aggregates these confirmations across the 15 departments in the line of presidential succession; below that is an agency-level breakdown in alphabetical order.
This section displays a list of Senate-confirmed individuals that are included in this tracker; they are listed in chronological order based on date of confirmation. The data on this page only includes confirmations to the 15 departments in the line of presidential succession; this excludes U.S. attorneys, among others.
Although newly inaugurated presidents are presented with the opportunity to fill roughly 1,200 Senate-confirmed positions across the federal government, the data on this page only includes confirmations within the 15 departments in the line of presidential succession.
Denis McDonough, who served as former President Barack Obama's chief of staff in his second term, will be nominated, Biden said on Dec. 10, to serve as his secretary of veterans affairs.
National Security Adviser. Biden said he would appoint Jack Sullivan as his national security adviser on Nov. 23. Sullivan previously served as deputy assistant to Obama and as national security adviser to Biden when he was vice president. He's also a former top aide to Hillary Clinton.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden guaranteed his White House would "look like the country.". As he entered the White House, he took steps towards keeping that promise -- assembling a historically diverse slate of top-level nominees. Half of the president's Cabinet picks are women and the majority are people of color.
Biden announced Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his nominee for labor secretary on Jan. 7. Walsh, 53, has served as the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014. The pro-union politician had previously served as head of the Boston Trades Council.
MORE: Video: Biden nominates Miguel Cardona for secretary of education. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images. Miguel Cardona speaks after President-Elect Joe Biden announced him as his nominee for Education Secretary at the Queen theatre on Dec. 23, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Confirmed: March 1 by a vote of 64-33.
As part of a rollout of major foreign policy and national security appointments and nominees, Biden announced he would nominate Alejandro Mayorkas for secretary of homeland security on Nov. 23.
Director of National Intelligence. Biden announced on Nov. 23 that he would nominate Avril Haines as his director of national intelligence. Haines is a former deputy director of the CIA, and served as principal deputy national security adviser under former President Barack Obama.