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 |
Democrats gained control of four Republican-held attorney general offices in the November 6, 2018, elections. As a result of the elections, there were 25 Democratic state attorneys general, 23 Republicans, and two independents. Democratic candidates flipped open seats in Colorado, Michigan, and Nevada and unseated a Republican incumbent in ...
Jun 08, 2018 · Bookings are now being taken for the Attorney General’s Constitutional Law Summer School being held in Belfast from 08 - 10 August 2018. You are invited to join the Attorney General and expert speakers in exploring major constitutional law issues drawing on the particular perspective of Northern Ireland. The cost to attendees is £200 for the ...
Sep 25, 2018 · Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Before. The Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety The Honorable Charles Allen, Chair. Public Oversight Roundtable on The District’s Summer Public Safety and Crime Prevention Efforts. September 25, 2018 1:00 pm Room 500 John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia …
Jul 19, 2018 · “Safe Summer” 2018 Boardwalk Inspections are Underway Initial Inspections in Seaside Heights and Atlantic City Find 12 Alleged Violators www.TheTrentonPost.com 609-310-NEWS (6397) State inspectors hit the boardwalk for the annual “Safe Summer” boardwalk compliance efforts are underway along the Jersey Shore…
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California Former Attorneys GeneralMatthew Rodriguez2021 – 2021Kamala D. Harris2010 – 2017Edmund G. Brown, Jr.2007 – 2011Bill Lockyer1999 – 2007Daniel E. Lungren1991 – 199929 more rows
Jeffrey A. RosenPreceded byWilliam BarrSucceeded byMonty Wilkinson (acting)38th United States Deputy Attorney GeneralIn office May 22, 2019 – December 23, 202027 more rows
Sally YatesSucceeded byDana Boente (acting)36th United States Deputy Attorney GeneralIn office January 10, 2015 – January 30, 2017PresidentBarack Obama Donald Trump25 more rows
In the order of creation, the position of attorney general was the fourth cabinet level position created by Congress, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorneys general may be impeached and removed from office by Congress. As of 2013 the office of U.S. Attorney General has been held by eighty two people.
Term Limits. Of the 50 Attorneys General, 25 do not have a formal provision specifying the number of terms allowed. Of the 44 elected attorneys general, all serve four-year terms with the exception of Vermont, who serves a two-year term.
Matthew WhitakerIn office November 7, 2018 – February 14, 2019PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyRod RosensteinPreceded byJeff Sessions20 more rows
General Edmund RandolphWashington's Cabinet While the current presidential cabinet includes sixteen members, George Washington's cabinet included just four original members: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
Cabinet officials on January 20, 2017The Obama CabinetOfficeNameSecretary of AgricultureTom VilsackSecretary of CommerceGary LockeJohn Bryson107 more rows
Janet RenoOfficial portrait, c. 1990s78th United States Attorney GeneralIn office March 12, 1993 – January 20, 2001PresidentBill Clinton16 more rows
61 years (August 20, 1960)Sally Quillian Yates / Age
The attorney general is an executive office in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., that serves as the chief legal advisor and chief law enforcement officer for the state government and is empowered to prosecute violations of state law, represent the state in legal disputes and issue legal advice to state agencies and the legislature. In most states, the attorney general has a substantial influence on a state's approach to law enforcement. Attorneys general often set particular law enforcement priorities (e.g. drug law, civil rights violations or sexual crime) and focus extra resources on these issues. This puts them, in the words of the National Association of Attorneys General, at the "intersection of law and public policy."
As a result of the elections, there were 25 Democratic state attorneys general, 23 Republicans, and two independents. Democratic candidates flipped open seats in Colorado, Michigan, and Nevada and unseated a Republican incumbent in Wisconsin, while Republicans picked up Alaska 's previously-independent attorney general office by winning ...
In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican Party gained a lead in elected attorney general offices, with 22 elected attorneys general to the Democrats' 21. The Democratic victory in the 2013 Virginia election for attorney general caused the party to briefly regain a 22-21 majority of elected attorney general offices.
Partisan control of elected attorney general offices, 1977-2017. In 1977, the Democratic Party held a total of 27 elected attorney general offices to the Republican Party 's 16.
Term limits. The attorney general is directly elected in 43 states and Washington, D.C. The attorney general is appointed by the state Legislature in Maine, by the state Supreme Court in Tennessee, and by the governor in the remaining five states.
In some cases. In all cases. N/A. In 36 states, the attorney general has the power to take over a case handled by a local prosecutor without instructions from the governor or legislature, although this power is restricted to certain cases in 22 of those states.