Jan 19, 2017 · Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions. During the week of January 9, 2017, the Senate Judiciary held hearings to confirm Donald Trump's appointment of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. Sessions is a conservative senator from Alabama and was the first senator to endorse Trump in the presidential primaries.
Jan 29, 2015 · Attorney General Nominee Says Illegal Immigrants Should Work, GOP Will Confirm. On Thursday, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced that he would vote against the nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general based on her statement that she supported President Obama’s executive amnesty. Unfortunately, when asked today whether she found the ...
Mar 10, 2021 · March 10, 2021 America Cannot Afford Merrick Garland as Attorney General Today the Senate will vote on Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to be Attorney General of the United States. I will oppose this nomination. I was open-minded, at first, about Judge Garland’s nomination. He has long had a reputation as a fair-minded Judge.
Feb 22, 2021 · According to Breitbart News, the plan would: -Put nearly all illegal aliens in the U.S. on an eight-year path to citizenship -Provide $4 billion in foreign aid to Central America -Expand the U.S. labor market with more foreign visa workers -Expedite green cards for foreign relatives, otherwise known as “chain migration.”
Confirming U.S. Attorneys as the chief federal law enforcement officers in their district is important for these efforts. The President has now announced 43 nominees to serve as U.S. Attorneys. Vanessa R.Jan 26, 2022
The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States. Under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, the officeholder is nominated by the president of the United States, then appointed with the advice and consent of the United States Senate.
Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the 86th United States attorney general since March 2021. He served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021.
Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the 78th United States attorney general from 1993 to 2001, the second-longest serving in that position, after William Wirt. A member of the Democratic Party, Reno was the first woman to hold the post.
A suspension is temporary, but the power it confers is extraordinary. When a suspension is in effect, the president, typically acting through subordinates, can imprison people indefinitely without any judicial check.
Attorneys General. While impeachment proceedings against cabinet secretaries is an exceedingly rare event, no office has provoked the ire of the House of Representatives than that of Attorney General. During the first fifth of the 21st century, no less than three Attorneys General have been subjected to the process.
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Attorney General Merrick B. GarlandMeet the Attorney General Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as the 86th Attorney General of the United States on March 11, 2021.3 days ago
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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.
Merrick Garland is Joe Biden’s Attorney General nominee and is just about as inarticulate as Biden has been about policy. The video below from Garland’s testimony for confirmation includes evasive answers like “Um,” “I just don’t know.” and “I haven’t thought about it.” It’s difficult to believe the nominee for AG in Biden’s administration hasn’t heard the news about Biden’s plans for open borders.
Mark Levin spells out the players in the coronavirus pandemic with a very knowledgable guest who is an investigative science writer Nicholas Wade. The science writer wrote a piece that was highly recommended to Levin called: The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? Mr. Wade lays out who, what, ]
Charity to others is something he’s known for, even though he’s a superstar on the Arizona Cardinals. He raised over $12 million for Hurricane Harvey victims in 2017 and more recently stepped up to help Santa Fe school ]
On February 4, 1993, the Clinton White House made it known via deliberate background statements to several major newspapers that 49-year-old United States federal judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York would be his new choice for Attorney General. However, no official announcement or nomination was being made, pending the completion of background checks and to gauge reaction to the pick. White House officials indicated that First Lady Hillary Clinton had insisted that the position still be filled by a woman. Wood, who was prominent in New York social circles, was married to Time magazine writer Michael Kramer and the couple had a six-year-old son.
One of the few men to make the short list for the Attorney General selection, Washington lawyer Charles Ruff, was ruled out of consideration by the White House on February 6, because he had not paid Social Security taxes for years for a woman who cleaned his house.
On February 11, 1993, Janet Reno was nominated for the post. Clinton had known of her since her days with the groundbreaking Miami Drug Court, where as state attorney she had worked with public defender and Clinton brother-in-law Hugh Rodham, but otherwise although qualified for the job had no federal experience and was relatively obscure. Reno was 54 years old, had never married and had no children, and, as Clinton later wrote, "Public service was her life." Without the chance of a nanny problem, and with her mowing her own lawn reducing the chances for an immigrant problem, Reno was the perfect choice after the Baird and Wood failures. In addition, Reno's down-to-earth image contrasted with the wealthy corporate lawyer Baird and the socially prominent Wood. (Reno would instead face something often experienced by unmarried woman of her age, speculation about her sexual orientation. )