Mar 27, 2018 · We cannot pretend that this solution would end all corruption, as we’ve seen with State Attorney Generals that were elected. This solution, however, means the Attorney General of the United States would no longer have to succumb to the whims of a president who does not see the Attorney General’s Office as being independent.
Jan 30, 2009 · Since an elected attorney general would be directly answerable to voters, he or she would probably not give the president too much latitude, even if they hailed from the …
Jul 23, 2013 · Although there is much to be said in favor of an Attorney General elected by a popular vote, if your goal is to fill the position with a “lawyer’s lawyer” you had better keep …
May 18, 2019 · and. Greg Sargent. May 17, 2019. President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr. (Kevin Dietsch/Bloomberg News) Last September, President Trump told an interviewer: …
Attorney General | Years of service |
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Merrick Garland | 2021-Present |
John Macpherson Berrien | 1829-1831 |
William Wirt | 1817-1829 |
Richard Rush | 1814-1817 |
Both men refused and resigned in protest. In the end, Nixon’s solicitor general, Robert Bork, did the president’s bidding and fired Cox. Then, on March 10, 2004, George W. Bush’s White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, and chief of staff, Andrew Card, barged into the intensive care hospital room of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, ...
On Oct. 20, 1973, President Nixon ordered then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson and then-Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox. ...