The rest of the new executive committee includes Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi; Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill; Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt; Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry; Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson; and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes.
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Top Justice officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio, and Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim are scheduled to attend.
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"The Attorney General Succession Act unambiguously deems Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein the Acting Attorney General," the motion reads.
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Under the Attorney General Succession Act, the deputy attorney general is the first in line to succeed the attorney general.
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Attorney General Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim and Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio.
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" (103 words) * Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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So, for example, if the attorney general position is vacant, the first assistant to the attorney general is the deputy attorney general.
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The Attorney General Succession Act, Section 508, stipulates that when there is a vacancy in the office of the attorney general, the deputy attorney general — currently Rod Rosenstein — can serve as the attorney general.
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Maryland's Attorney General Brian Frosh filed a court challenge Tuesday to replace Whitaker with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as acting attorney general.
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After the firing, the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned.
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He was attorney general, still is the attorney general, in Missouri.
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Yes, but only by the Attorney General, or acting Attorney General.
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That's what our attorney general, our great attorney general is doing.
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That authority clearly lies with the attorney general—or in this case, because the attorney general has recused himself, with the deputy attorney general.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Nevada Attorney General Paul Laxalt filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night to stop the White House's proposed transition of ICANN functions.
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Before that, he served as deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general.
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He also previously served as assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general.
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Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is a contender for attorney general.
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She is New York State's attorney general, not an acting attorney general.
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Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus was now the acting attorney general.
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The Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General declined to bring a case.
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It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
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It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
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The firing prompted the resignation of the attorney general and deputy attorney general.
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Both the attorney general and deputy attorney general are subject to Senate confirmation.
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller (D) backs Bullock, himself a former attorney general.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Nevada Attorney General Paul Laxalt filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night to stop the White House's proposed transition of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
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Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, if confirmed will replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and current acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for EPA administrator.
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There is no conflict between the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and Americans.
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Attorney general: 'The end of freedom of expression' Venezuela's attorney general lambasted the election.
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The attorney general, before he was attorney general, was a US senator from Alabama.
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Attorney General Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction.
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The president named the deputy attorney general, Albert Elías Beltrán, as interim attorney general.
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Instead, the attorney general and then-deputy attorney general chose not to prosecute Trump.
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To be attorney general — you've got to win an election to be attorney general.
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The suits were filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in Albany, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in Boston and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh in Baltimore.
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Washington (CNN)Maryland's Attorney General on Tuesday filed papers asking a federal judge to replace Matthew Whitaker as acting US attorney general with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette appear close to gubernatorial runs in 2018, while Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi eyes a Trump administration job and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey remains a top contender to challenge Sen.
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Maryland joins New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (D), Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) and Washington state in challenging the new ban.
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So the president appointed the attorney general, and the attorney general works for the president, so the attorney general would have to be overseeing some investigation of the president.
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Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus refused to fire Cox, and both resigned from their positions in protest, leaving Bork as acting attorney general.
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By default, under federal law, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would become acting attorney general.
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This role can only be appointed by an Attorney General, or an acting Attorney General.
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Comey was serving as acting attorney general as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized.
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The deputy attorney general is defending the attorney general from the attack from the president.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein will conduct the interviews.
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Attorney General William Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein chose not to charge Trump.
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Her father is an associate attorney general at the Office of the Attorney General in Hartford.
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Underwood, who has been serving as acting attorney general, becomes New York's first female attorney general.
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Both the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned rather than carry out the order.
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The attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time resigned after refusing to dismiss Cox.
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He also was told he should do so by the attorney general and deputy attorney general.
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COTTON: You were acting attorney general when attorney general John Ashcroft was incapacitated due to illness.
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So obviously the attorney general has found it hard to be just a normal attorney general.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week became the 17th attorney general to join the lawsuit.
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She became acting attorney general once Loretta E. Lynch resigned as attorney general on Inauguration Day.
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Last week, he fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and installed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.
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SCHMIDT: Was that [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions's mistake or [Deputy Attorney General Rod J.] Rosenstein's mistake?
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Whitaker was installed as acting attorney general in November, after Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Details: James is expected to meet with Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Associate Attorney General for antitrust Makan Delrahim, the person familiar with the plans said.
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The attorney general (or, if there is none, the acting attorney general) needs "good cause" to fire Mueller, and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who's overseen Mueller since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, has told Congress he still has faith in the special counsel.
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Trump's current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein also signed at least one FISA application for Page – along with former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente.
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But he's also asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Matt Whitaker, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff who has since become acting attorney general, for updates on the investigation.
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It did not say whether the analysis had been commissioned by the former attorney general Jeff Sessions; the former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker; or the current attorney general, William P. Barr.
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The lawsuit was announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
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Rather than comply with the order, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned.
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Whitaker became acting attorney general earlier this month after Trump fired now-former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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President Trump could fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at any moment.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out the order.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein also will be leaving soon after attorney general nominee William Barr's confirmation.
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He has fired the F.B.I. director, belittled his attorney general and publicly assailed the deputy attorney general.
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The lawyers told the justices that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should be the acting attorney general.
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The statutory line of succession within the Department of Justice provides that the Deputy Attorney General serves as Acting Attorney General in the case of a vacancy in the Office of Attorney General.
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Washington (CNN)Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday night that he has "never seen a president talk to the attorney general" the way President Donald Trump talks to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein declined to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
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"As the attorney general I have to investigate such incidents," Attorney General Douglas Melendez said in a statement.
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DC Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland's Attorney General Brian Frosh called the lawsuit's revival "significant" on Tuesday.
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Attorney General Maura Healey of Massachusetts announced a joint investigation today.
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He became the attorney general, he&aposs not the attorney general, he&aposs the director of the FBI.
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Trump fired Comey on Tuesday after his attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended the FBI director's removal.
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Before Wray became an assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, he was principal associate deputy attorney General.
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The attorney general (or acting attorney general) would also have to provide the reason for dismissal in writing.
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The answer largely depends on whether President Trump continues to see the attorney general as "his" attorney general.
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Vincent-Tripp, an assistant attorney general at the Florida Office of the Attorney General, was Miss America 1991.
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser commissioned the report, and former Colorado attorney general Bob Troyer led the investigation.
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The United States of America has an Attorney General, & when YOU have an Attorney General, the country loses.
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Rosenstein, for this situation, assumes the rightful role of attorney general; he is no longer deputy attorney general.
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However, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded the president had not obstructed justice.
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Sessions is sworn in as Trump's attorney general, Bentley appoints state Attorney General Strange to fill Sessions' seat.
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The assistant attorney general is then allowed to re-delegate that authority to the deputy assistant attorney general.
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It says that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein takes over if Attorney General Sessions is fired or resigns.
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" "It would have been less controversial," Bellinger told Axios, "and less legally risky if the President had named the Deputy Attorney General, or Solicitor General, or an Assistant Attorney General as Acting Attorney General.
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Those moments with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein also represented breakout moments for a politician who had been seen as overly cautious in her previous job as California's attorney general.
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President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next attorney general already went through it twice before, first to serve as deputy attorney general in 1990 and then to become attorney general from 1991 to 1993.
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Massive use illegally of immunity, with the permission of the attorney general and Sally Yates, the deputy attorney general.
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The President, Joe Biden, Sally Yates, who is the Deputy Attorney General, becomes acting Attorney General at some point.
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That disagreement led to the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus.
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He argued that, by law, Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, automatically became the acting attorney general after Sessions' departure.
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Nixon first fired his attorney general and deputy attorney general when they refused to obey Nixon and dismiss Cox.
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He declined to offer clarity on the futures of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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A prosecutor appointed by a Deputy Attorney General is acting Attorney General and is a subordinate of the President.
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The four candidates will meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the sources said.
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The acting deputy attorney general would be Matthew G. Whitaker, the chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Elliot Richardson, the attorney general, and William Ruckelshaus, the deputy attorney general, resigned rather than carry out the order.
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Only hours later, Israel&aposs attorney general Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit filed criminal indictments in Jerusalem&aposs District Court.
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Trump said he fired Comey at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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The tech investigations have drawn unusual interest from Attorney General William P. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than fire the independent counsel, Archibald Cox.
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The deputy attorney general steps into the shoes of the attorney general to make decisions about that particular investigation.
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Rather than carry out Nixon's order, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus both resigned. Rep.
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According to Politico, White House guidelines say that only the president, vice president and White House counsel can discuss certain investigations or cases with the attorney general, deputy attorney general, associate attorney general or solicitor general.
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Last week, Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions and installed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general in his place.
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After Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the probe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein became the person in charge.
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He was appointed by James Comey, then deputy attorney general, after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the probe.
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President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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President Bill Clinton with the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights, Bill Lann Lee, and Attorney General Janet Reno.
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Current Labor Secretary Tom Perez, former associate attorney general and current Labor secretary, is on the shortlist for attorney general.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein chose not to charge the President with an obstruction crime.
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The memo, dated June 8, 2018, is addressed to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Assistant Attorney General Steve Engel.
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Claire McCaskill, the incumbent Democrat is going to be opposed by Josh Hawley, the attorney general, the Republican attorney general.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, refusing Nixon's order to fire Cox, resigned that same night.
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Democrats in Minnesota days ago voted to endorse activist Matt Pelikan for attorney general over incumbent Attorney General Lori Swanson.
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Levine was principal associate deputy attorney general and principal deputy attorney general in the Justice Department under former President Reagan.
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We cannot predict whether Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would allow that to happen.
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Nixon's Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus both refused Nixon's order to fire Cox; they resigned.
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Barr "is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump," she said.
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Unlike the nation's attorney general, who is appointed by the president, the New York attorney general is an elected position.
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The groom, also 229, is an assistant attorney general and chief of staff to Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general.
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The New York attorney general and Washington, DC, attorney general have opened investigations into the NRA and its foundation finances.
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The groom, also 34, is an assistant attorney general and chief of staff to Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general.
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Under these rules, only the attorney general — or, in this case, the deputy attorney general — may remove a special counsel.
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Alaska's former attorney general, Craig Richards, who approved the settlement, declined requests for comment, as did the current attorney general.
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Witnesses supporting Mr. Sessions will include former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Larry Thompson, a former deputy attorney general.
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"He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump," she added.
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Harris, a former attorney general of California, knew Biden's late son, Beau Biden, who served as attorney general of Delaware.
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I'm going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general Bill Barr.
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I'm going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general, Bill Barr.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus refused the president's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Thus far, the lessons of prior scandals have eluded both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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If the attorney general dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to serve, the first deputy, who in this case is Rosenstein, becomes the acting attorney general under a section of federal law specific to attorney general successions.
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During the four years I served under President George H.W. Bush, he nominated me for three successive positions in the Department – Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; Deputy Attorney General; and, finally, Attorney General.
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Under the Reno rules, the decision to appoint a special counsel is made by the attorney general (or by the deputy attorney general when the attorney general is recused from the matter, as in the Trump situation).
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Maryland argues the appointment is unlawful under the Attorney General Succession Act, which vests full authority to the deputy attorney general if the Office of Attorney General becomes vacant, and unconstitutional under the appointments clause of the Constitution.
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Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for attorney general, and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump's nominee to helm the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official overseeing Mueller's investigation because Attorney General Jeff Sessions is recused, announced Feb.
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Giuliani also said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Last year, Karl Racine, Washington's attorney-general, and Sean Reyes, Utah's attorney-general, asked the FTC to reopen its Google investigation.
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We go to the deputy attorney general who is the acting attorney general and then he will determine what goes forward.
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The attorney general -- or actually the deputy attorney general, given AG Jeff Sessions' recusal -- would need to appoint such a counsel.
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" Meanwhile, Trump continued to publicly decry Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week, tweeting that the attorney general is "weak" and "beleaguered.
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" Meanwhile, Trump continued to publicly decry Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week, tweeting that the attorney general is "weak" and "beleaguered.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in June became the first attorney general to sue not just Purdue but Sackler family members.
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According to Politico, the former Oklahoma attorney general is "interested" in becoming U.S. attorney general if Jeff Sessions leaves the administration.
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The White House said Comey was dismissed on the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Last summer, Schakowsky asked both the U.S. Attorney General and the California Attorney General to investigate the campaign against Planned Parenthood.
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She served as California attorney general at the same time that Biden's late son, Beau Biden, was attorney general of Delaware.
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The Trump administration asked her to stay on as acting attorney general until Jeff Sessions was confirmed to be attorney general.
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So the president can fire the attorney general, or request his resignation, as Trump did to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The officials said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, pushed for Mr. Comey's dismissal.
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NY attorney general In March 2019, New York's Attorney General launched a civil investigation into Trump's funding of several commercial projects.
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Chris Christie and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to replace fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, sources familiar with the matter said.
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The writer is a deputy attorney general in the Office of the California Attorney General whose work includes veterans' rights lawsuits.
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Department of Justice rules say the special counsel can only be fired by the attorney general or the acting attorney general.
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Unlike Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Jeff Sessions's former chief of staff and a troubling interim replacement in more ways than one, Mr. Barr is intimately familiar with the nation's chief law enforcement agency, having served as President George H.W. Bush's attorney general between 1991 and 1993 and as deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general before that.
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Since then, Mr. Trump has considered firing Mr. Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein — drawing parallels to the Watergate investigation more than four decades earlier, when Richard M. Nixon, ordered his attorney general and deputy attorney general to fire the special prosecutor investigating abuses in the 1972 presidential election.
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Michaels' lawyers argued that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the department's No. 2 official, should have succeeded Sessions under a federal law that vests full authority in the deputy attorney general should the office of attorney general become vacant.
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The result is the special counsel can now be fired by the attorney general (or, in this case, the deputy attorney general, since Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself), who, in turn, can be fired by the president.
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Since the attorney general is charged with enforcing all federal law, including the statutes in this gun rights case, the motion argues that the identity of the attorney general is imperative, and the rightful acting attorney general is Rosenstein.
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Trump has nominated William Barr, who served as attorney general under former President George H.W. Bush, to succeed Sessions as attorney general.
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Because Attorney General John Ashcroft had recused himself from the investigation of the leak, Comey, then deputy attorney general, was in charge.
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Acting attorney general fired President Trump got to engage in his old "Apprentice" persona when he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus already had resigned in protest after Nixon ordered them to fire Cox.
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Attorney general Healy opened an investigation with New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman concerning potential violations of the state's consumer protections statute.
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Pennsylvania's attorney general seat remains in flux, with the attorney general Kathleen Kane having stepped down this summer following a criminal conviction.
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In his letter to Comey, Trump said the move was recommended by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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As Trump considers a replacement for the attorney general slot, Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, has been appointed acting attorney general.
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Whitaker, 49, was named acting Attorney General after President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions just hours after the midterm elections.
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Cox's firing preceded the resignation of Nixon's attorney general and deputy attorney general, who both refused to fire Cox at Nixon's behest.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Trump repeatedly called out Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
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The event featured a handful of speakers, including then-Attorney General Eric Holder, then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole and Mueller himself.
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Yates, a former deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, served as acting attorney general in the first days of Trump's presidency.
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"I was going to fire regardless of [the] recommendation" from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump said.
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For that reason, Attorney General William Barr and then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein agreed there was no case for criminal obstruction.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, whose 15 minutes as attorney general is over, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 8.
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DOJ found that in 1866, a non-Senate confirmed assistant attorney general served as acting attorney general, before the department was founded.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, and — most importantly — former FBI Director James Comey, all weighed in:
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I've never seen a president talk to an attorney general in the way that this president has spoken to his attorney general.
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"Jeff Sessions is a friend and he is the Attorney General and I'm grateful that he is the Attorney General," Cruz said.
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Trump has attacked the special counsel, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the FBI director, the Justice Department and the FBI.
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Barr, who served as both attorney general and deputy attorney general during George H.W. Bush's administration, is certainly qualified for the job.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, both Democrats who served under President Barack Obama, endorsed Wray.
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New York's attorney general opened an investigation Thursday morning into Vassell's death, said Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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"The attorney general and deputy attorney general should recuse themselves from the appointment, selection and reporting of a special counsel," she added.
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Once the special prosecutor investigating Watergate was fired, the attorney general, Elliot Richardson, resigned, as did the deputy attorney general, William Ruckelshaus.
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She agreed to Mr. Trump's request to stay on as acting attorney general until Mr. Sessions is confirmed to be attorney general.
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It's not a surprise that Trump's handpicked Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General decided that the standards for obstruction were not met.
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He supported Comey and Mueller when they threatened to resign in protest of a Bush-era policy In March 2004, Comey was the deputy attorney general filling in as the acting attorney general while then-Attorney General Josh Ashcroft was hospitalized.
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Since the attorney general is charged with enforcing all federal law, including the statutes in this gun rights case, the motion argues that the identity of the attorney general is imperative, and the rightful acting attorney general is Rod Rosenstein.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and other legal scholars have argued that Whitaker's appointment is unlawful under a department statute that vests the full authority of the office to the deputy attorney general if the office of attorney general becomes vacant.
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The White House also said Trump will nominate Rachel Brand to be associate attorney general and Steven Engel to be an assistant attorney general, filling senior positions as the Justice Department awaits Senate confirmation of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein further determined that Mueller's findings did not warrant an obstruction of justice offense.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, vows to crack down on government leaks at an August 22015 press briefing.
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After Mr Trump sacked his former attorney-general, Jeff Sessions, he appointed Mr Whitaker over the Senate-appointed deputy attorney-general, Rod Rosenstein.
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But in this presidency, an attorney general the president can have faith in is an attorney general the public cannot have faith in.
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Attorney General William Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein declined to charge the president with obstruction of justice earlier this year.
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C., made the request for records on Daniel Richman in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane's facing new calls to resign, after the Pennsylvania attorney general was found guilty yesterday of perjury and obstruction.
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Cox's termination was preceded by the resignation of Nixon's attorney general and deputy attorney general, who both refused the order to fire Cox.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder announced Delery's promotion to acting associate attorney general, the No. 3 position at the department, in September 2014.
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President Donald Trump just fired FBI director James Comey on recommendations made by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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DECEPTIVE MARKETING Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in June became the first attorney general to sue not just Purdue but Sackler family members.
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Rosenstein serves as the acting attorney general for investigations related to the 2016 election after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last spring.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Trump's nominee to serve as the next attorney general, William Barr, have each previously criticized the investigation.
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The attorney general refused the order and resigned, and when Nixon asked the deputy attorney general to do the same; he also resigned.
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EST Tuesday: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Rod Rosenstein to be the deputy attorney general and Rachel Brand to be associate attorney general.
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Nixon famously forced the resignations of his attorney general and deputy attorney general to find someone who would fire the Watergate special prosecutor.
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Attorney General William Barr jokes with outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a farewell ceremony at the Department of Justice on Thursday.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine (D) said that the case was still alive despite the delay.
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If, for whatever reason, Sessions and Rosenstein are both fired (or quit), Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand would elevate to acting attorney general.
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While Pirro initially pitched herself as attorney general during the transition, she also signaled interest in being named deputy attorney general, Politico reported.
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This conclusion was reached by the attorney general and deputy attorney general; Mueller left the decision for any obstruction prosecution to his bosses.
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The Attorney General was a railroad director and a railroad lawyer at the very same time that he was serving as Attorney General.
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The coalition of states challenging the law was led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, both Republicans.
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The instructions came from the civil rights division's office of acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler and Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Gore.
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He attended Tuesday's meeting, sitting alongside Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the acting associate attorney general, Jesse Panuccio, the department's No. 3 official.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein argued the case for Comey's sacking in a three-page memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday.
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United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions was long the grim reaper of Alabama, eagerly seeking executions when he was the state's attorney general.
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But if the views that the president wants to execute are unlawful, should the attorney general or the deputy attorney general say no?
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Huntley recalls his surprise when Sessions, then attorney general for Alabama's Southern District, offered to join him in Mobile as assistant attorney general.
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A federal statute governing Justice Department succession says that the deputy attorney general takes over if the office of attorney general is vacant.
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"Everything will be fair, but we will have an attorney general, and the attorney general is going to take a look," he said.
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With Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused from the Russia investigation, oversight of the special counsel falls to the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein.
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In a March 31 memo, he assigned the task to the new deputy attorney general and associate attorney general, who are awaiting confirmation.
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" Ms. Yates replied, "Senator, I believe the attorney general or deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution.
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He said earlier this year he asked Attorney General William Barr in a meeting how he would handle whistleblower complaints as attorney general.
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Strange, a former state attorney general who was appointed to the Senate seat left empty when Jeff Sessions was appointed U.S. Attorney General.
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Democrats and Republicans, from Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro to Republican US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have encouraged the harsher prosecutor approach.
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Trump nominated William Barr, a conservative lawyer and attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, to be the next attorney general in December.
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In December, Trump nominated William Barr, a conservative lawyer and attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, to be the next attorney general.
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Meanwhile, Justice officials began planning for his departure, drafting statements ready to name Solicitor General Noel Francisco acting attorney general for purposes of overseeing Mueller and Matt Whitaker, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' current chief of staff, as the acting deputy attorney general.
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As we consider the roles played by the current attorney general and his deputy in Comey's firing, we would do well to remember Alberto Gonzales and Paul McNulty, the hapless attorney general and deputy attorney general during the George W. Bush administration.
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Instead, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reviewed the evidence, then decided not to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice.
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Justice Souter, I actually happened to have known, because he had been attorney general of New Hampshire when I was attorney general of Connecticut.
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California Attorney General Xavier BecerraPhoto: GettyThe California Attorney General announced criminal charges against four men it claims are the owners and operators of Mugshots.com.
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The New York state legislature appointed a new attorney general on Tuesday to serve out the remainder of disgraced Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's term.
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Now, the former Ohio attorney general will face the current Ohio attorney general, Republican Mike DeWine, in the high-stakes gubernatorial contest this fall.
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Here's what I would do Neil, I would appoint an Attorney General and I would have one very brief conversation with that Attorney General.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein declined to charge Trump with obstruction, a move met with skepticism from congressional Democrats.
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The report's release on Thursday will be preceded by a press conference hosted by Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that an obstruction-of-justice charge was not warranted, based on the report.
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Before that he was the deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.
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The president said he made the unexpected decision on the advice of Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general.
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If Sessions and Rosenstein are both fired (or quit), then in that case, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, would elevate to acting attorney general.
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Trump has repeatedly criticized Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed him, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself in the matter.
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She was then appointed as the United States Deputy Attorney General in 2015, and worked hand-in-hand with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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Other nominees described only meeting with Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in their submissions.
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President Donald Trump terminated FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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But Harris generated a wave of headlines of her own after her questioning of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Amy Spitalnick, press secretary for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, said the attorney general declined to comment in response to questions about Vance.
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Lynch, who became Obama's attorney general in 2015, will undoubtedly be questioned about her handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation while attorney general.
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Sally Yates is the former Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General of the US. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.
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Nevertheless, Nunes and other House Republicans have continued to threaten Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions with contempt of Congress.
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Much of the power being exercised by the deputy attorney general or the attorney general has nothing to do with Jeff Sessions&apos recusal.
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And that is a legacy that no freedom-loving, Constitution-abiding deputy attorney general or acting attorney general should want on their professional resume.
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Prior to Mueller's appointment as FBI director, he served as U.S. attorney, assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and acting deputy attorney general.
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Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly installed Cook as the associate deputy attorney general with a mandate to focus on violent crime.
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Richard M. Nixon fired the independent special prosecutor in the "Saturday Night Massacre," and his attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest.
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The Mueller investigation was completed without, as Mr. Barr affirmed, any action rejected by the attorney general or Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general.
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Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, told Mr. Trump that Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, had appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel.
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Miller said that both former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wanted to take a new look at the case.
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He knew the key players: Comey, the special counsel Robert Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the president himself.
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In response to the raids, Mr. Trump has considered firing Mr. Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.
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His father is a deputy attorney general with the office of the California attorney general in San Diego, where he focuses on environmental law.
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" The President also criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the special counsel investigation, saying, "the attorney general made a terrible mistake.
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Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under President Barack Obama, has excoriated Attorney General William Barr as "unfit" to serve in his position.
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Luther Strange, the former Alabama attorney general who was appointed in February to replace Jeff Sessions after he was confirmed as Trump's attorney general.
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Rosenstein previously oversaw the probe after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, and more recently former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker supervised Mueller.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro led the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Trump last week forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general in charge of overseeing Mueller.
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The day after the midterms, Trump fired Sessions, his long-beleaguered attorney general, and appointed Matthew Whitaker to replace him as acting attorney general.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson said after the meeting, which lasted about an hour, that much of the discussion focused on whether concerns about collection of consumer data can be addressed using antitrust law.
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Trump doesn't want an attorney general who believes in the Constitution, or an attorney general willing to hasten the deportation of victims of domestic violence seeking asylum — or even an attorney general who will fix the "inner cities" he believes are enmeshed in turmoil.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker announced their probes at a news conference in New York, flanked by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and top attorneys from other states.
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Mr. Mueller's supervisor is currently Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, but that could change if Mr. Trump fires him or Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, who is recused from the Russia investigation, leaving Mr. Rosenstein as the acting attorney general for that matter.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller in May 2017 because then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the Justice Department's Russia probe.
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Matthew Whitaker - Trump said he will nominate William Barr to be attorney general, replacing Whitaker, who was named acting attorney general only a month ago.
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The players The attorney general of Washington state, Bob Ferguson, filed the case and was later joined by the attorney general of Minnesota, Lori Swanson.
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Traditionally, the Senate-confirmed deputy attorney general — in this case, Rosenstein — would step in as acting attorney general in the event of a top vacancy.
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"I request disclosure from the Office of Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller the following records: "1.
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The attorney general added that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that there wasn't sufficient evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
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He was later promoted to principal deputy associate attorney general, serving under the associate attorney general, who is the third-ranking official in the department.
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The decision was based on recommendations from the top ranking officials in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi The twice-elected Florida attorney general is a prolific fundraiser who was touted as a potential gubernatorial candidate in 2018.
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"President Trump made the right decision at the right time to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general," Pence said.
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The White House said that Comey was fired based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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If Sessions is out, he will presumably be replaced by an amenable attorney general who will likely terminate Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as well.
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Last week, Mexico's acting attorney general fired Santiago Nieto, the attorney general for election-related crimes, on grounds that he broke a code of conduct.
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"The chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general -- and in this case, the acting attorney general," he said.
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In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave the administration until September 5th to repeal DACA or they'd sue.
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Strange, 64, is the former state attorney general who was appointed to fill the Senate seat left vacant after Jeff Sessions became U.S. attorney general.
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In 1973, former President Richard Nixon asked then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have concluded that "the evidence is not sufficient" to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
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Today, Trump wages political wars against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller.
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If the attorney general recuses himself, it falls to the deputy attorney general to appoint a special counsel, according to the Code of Federal Regulations.
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Bork did so after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus quit rather than obey Nixon's order to dismiss the special prosecutor.
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The call was made by Attorney General William Barr, who in consultation with then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, said Trump would not face charges.
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Still other experts emphasize that Rosenstein is not supervising Mueller in his role as deputy attorney general, he's doing it as the acting attorney general.
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Harris, in particular, struck an emotional chord, detailing her relationship with Beau Biden when she was California attorney general and he was Delaware attorney general.
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Rosenstein, arguing that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is the rightful acting attorney general because Mr. Whitaker's appointment violated federal statutes and the Constitution.
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The original White House narrative was that on May 9, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommended that Trump fire Comey.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions later tapped Boente to serve on an acting basis as deputy attorney general and as head of DOJ's national security division.
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Rod J. Rosenstein was sworn in as the 22017th Deputy Attorney General of the United States on April 26, 2017, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Although it's not a common occurrence, Rosenstein is not the first deputy attorney general (or attorney general) to argue a case before the highest court.
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When he did that to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and the special counsel Robert Mueller, they stuck it out.
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" Sessions asked, adding, "But if the views the president wants to execute are unlawful, should the attorney general or the deputy attorney general say no?
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And the U.S. Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General both resigned in protest over Nixon's decision, while Sessions and Rosenstein are complicit in Comey's firing.
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Or asks someone to fix it (Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, if they're still around?) And fights, no matter what.
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Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under US President Barack Obama, has excoriated Attorney General William Barr as "unfit" to serve in his position.
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Attorney General-designate Sessions has a protégé on the federal appeals court in Atlanta, William H. Pryor Jr., who succeeded him as Alabama's attorney general.
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Mexico's acting attorney general fired Santiago Nieto, the attorney general for election-related crimes, last week on grounds that he broke a code of conduct.
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The action was spurred by Trump's move on Wednesday to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, as acting attorney general.
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The decision was based on recommendations from the top ranking officials in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General R od Rosenstein.
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No attorney general has been impeached, but it is clear from the text of the Constitution and history that an attorney general is subject to impeachment.
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When former Attorney General Eric Holder informed Obama of his intention to leave the office, Obama tapped Loretta Lynch for attorney general and Yates for deputy.
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Bernie Sanders, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, made the request in a letter to Attorney General William Barr and Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, however, concluded that there was insufficient proof for an obstruction offense based on the Mueller report.
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Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein further determined that the report did not show that Trump committed an obstruction of justice offense.
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Former attorney general Eric Holder weighed in, noting that Richard Nixon attempted a similar maneuver — an action that resulted in the resignation of his attorney general.
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Attorney General William Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that the report didn't have enough evidence to support an obstruction-of-justice offense.
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"As part of this investigation, the Attorney General has issued subpoenas," a spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement to CNN.
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Barr would replace Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who has been in that position since Trump forced out Jeff Sessions as attorney general a month ago.
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When former Attorney General Eric Holder informed Obama of his intention to leave the office, Obama tapped Loretta Lynch for attorney general and Yates for deputy.
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Trump had raged against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who by recusing himself from the Russia investigation, allowed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Mueller.
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The official said the Justice Department is running the process with job interviews being conducted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are interviewing four potential interim FBI directors Wednesday, according to a Justice Department official.
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Both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommended Comey's dismissal, citing "substantial damage" to the FBI's reputation and credibility under his leadership.
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But the case that Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, laid out against Comey in his memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions was nonpartisan and accurate.
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to carry out Nixon's order to fire Cox and resigned as did Richardson's next in command, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus.
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And in fact, the chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general, or in this case the acting attorney general.
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MAGAZINE An article on May 2800 about attorney general Kamala Harris of California included an erroneous detail about her first race for attorney general, in 8003.
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The special counsel, who operates under a delegation from the U.S. deputy attorney general in his role as acting attorney general, is bound by this opinion.
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The president appointed Matthew Whitaker to take over as acting attorney general, and has since nominated former Attorney General William Barr for the post full time.
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The regulation allows, but does not require, the attorney general (or the deputy if the attorney general is recused) to appoint and remove a special prosecutor.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted that President Richard Nixon's attorney general "courageously resigned" after being asked to fire a special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal.
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That statement, released Tuesday, said Trump's decision to fire Comey was based on the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Trump mused Monday about firing his attorney general or his deputy attorney general and has mused before about firing the special counsel investigating Russian election meddling.
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In 2010, Vullo worked as executive deputy attorney general for economic justice for 11 months under Cuomo, a Democrat, who was then the state's attorney general.
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In a highly unusual move, lawyer Tom Goldstein asked the court to declare Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as the acting attorney general, instead of Whitaker.
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The race pits state attorney general and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine against former consumer financial protection bureau director — and former state attorney general — Richard Cordray.
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, the last senator to become attorney general, was subjected to four days of hearings when he joined George W. Bush's cabinet.
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In his letter firing Comey, Trump said he was terminating the FBI director after recommendations from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Whitaker remains as acting attorney general, though Trump has nominated William Barr, who previously held the post, as attorney general, the top U.S law enforcement official.
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Other laws distinguish between those duties Mr. Whitaker may carry out as acting attorney general and those limited to an attorney general confirmed by the Senate.
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"I don't have an attorney general," Mr. Trump declared — an extraordinary statement even for a president who has already called his attorney general weak and disloyal.
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The attorney general of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, and the attorney general of California, Xavier Becerra, filed lawsuits to block the new rules, which took effect immediately.
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He would be the third man in barely two years to occupy that post, replacing acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who replaced Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Other women to visit the president-elect's team include Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, former national security official K.T. McFarland, Rep.
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As a former attorney general, I have a series of questions about your connection with the attorney general during the course of your tenure as director.
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Unless the N.S.A. brought Stellar Wind within the constraints of the law, he would lose his F.B.I. director, the attorney general and the acting attorney general.
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Just think about what would happen if a house of Congress directed the deputy attorney general to initiate contempt proceedings against his boss, the Attorney General.
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Barr will replace acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker who has filled the role temporarily after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired by Trump last year.
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Attorney general Police will now pass the evidence to the attorney general, who will make a decision on whether or not to indict the Prime Minister.
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Trump appointed him after firing Sally Yates, who served as deputy attorney general under Democratic former President Barack Obama and as acting attorney general under Trump.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker at a Justice Department event on November 15, 20143Photo: Getty ImagesWhen President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this month, people started looking more closely at the man who was appointed to take his place, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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"We welcome Texas' resolve to block this anticompetitive merger, and are pleased to announce that Attorney General Ken Paxton will assume a key leadership role in this case, along with (California) Attorney General (Xavier) Becerra and myself," said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a statement.
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This cover sheet came from the Justice Department's "executive secretariat"—a part of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) handling correspondence between the attorney general (AG), DAG, associate attorney general (ASG), and specific correspondence addressed to or from the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA). 93.
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In a stunning move on the heels of the midterm election, President Trump has forced the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointed an outspoken critic of the Mueller investigation — Matthew Whitaker — as acting attorney general, shunting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to the sidelines.
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The Saturday Night Massacre, when President Richard Nixon removed Cox, Attorney General Elliot Richardson, and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, led Congress to adopt a statute requiring the attorney general to ask the courts to name a special counsel when credible allegations of high-level wrongdoing surfaced.
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Following the end of Mueller's investigation, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute an obstruction case.
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During the George W. Bush to Obama transition, Bush's deputy attorney general similar led the department while former Attorney General Eric Holder awaited confirmation in the Senate.
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Representatives of more than a dozen state attorney general offices will convene Tuesday morning with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss concerns about social media platforms.
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The change of leadership overseeing the Google review may further the investigation's ties to Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen's boss, Attorney General William Barr, industry sources noted.
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Then, Nixon ordered his attorney general and deputy attorney general to fire the special prosecutor investigating Watergate, but they each resigned rather than carry out his order.
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Comey says he spoke to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general about Trump kicking everyone out of the Oval Office to talk to him privately.
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Attorney General William Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took up the obstruction question, concluding that there was not enough evidence to support an offense.
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President Donald Trump says he will nominate William Barr, a conservative lawyer and former attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, to be the next attorney general.
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Even if Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the leader of the investigation is a tenured employee, making the investigation untouchable.
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" Mike Pence to reporters "President Trump made the right decision at the right time to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney General and the Attorney General.
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Only the attorney general - or in this case Rosenstein, as the acting attorney general in matters related to Russia - has the authority to fire a special counsel.
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Trump fired Comey on the advice of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has recused himself from dealing with the Russian investigation.
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Trump could deep-six his beleaguered attorney general, convinced he's outmaneuvered all of his detractors, only to find himself stuck indefinitely with acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Separately, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, both Democrats, argued that Trump has violated a constitutional provision to prevent corruption at home.
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Kasowitz also references how both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had advised Trump that the FBI's integrity would remain compromised under Comey.
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Matthew Whitaker is serving as the acting attorney general, although former Attorney General William Barr has been nominated to be the the departments' permanent head once again.
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The rules empower the attorney general, not the president, to make the appointment, but Mr. Trump is unlikely to name an attorney general who disagrees with him.
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The effort was led by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D), according to a press release from Bondi's office.
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Former President Richard Nixon fired his attorney general and his deputy attorney general after both refused his demand to fire the special investigator in the Watergate probe.
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The Justice Department has a rule against "double acting" officials — basically, the acting deputy attorney general can't also be the acting attorney general for the Russia investigation.
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"It's a mystery why Rudy Giuliani feels the need to relitigate incidents the attorney general and deputy attorney general have concluded were not obstruction," Mr. Burck said.
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Substantive decisions are often made by the assistant attorney general for antitrust — the position Delrahim now holds — who then gets a sign-off from the attorney general.
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Authority to appoint Mr. Mueller landed with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last March from the Russia probe.
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They included two Democrats: former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. of the Obama administration and Jamie S. Gorelick, a deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration.
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Sessions walked out on stage to a standing ovation in a packed room, joined by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the current attorney general, William Barr.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended his second in command, Rod Rosenstein, a day after House conservatives began an effort to impeach the deputy attorney general.
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"At Attorney General Barr's request, the President has contacted other countries to ask them to introduce the Attorney General and Mr. Durham to appropriate officials," Kupec added.
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"At Attorney General Barr's request, the President has contacted other countries to ask them to introduce the Attorney General and Mr. Durham to appropriate officials," Kupec said.
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) is also investigating both issues, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) is looking into the climate side of it.
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Mr. Nixon responded by having Mr. Cox fired, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and the deputy attorney general, William D. Ruckelshaus.
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"The attorney general seemed almost to be acting as the counselor for the defense, or the counselor for the president, rather than the attorney general," Wallace said.
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After the previous occupant of this seat, Jeff Sessions, was confirmed as Trump's attorney general, Alabama's governor appointed the state's attorney general, Luther Strange, to replace him.
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Rosenstein, on the theory that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is the rightful acting attorney general because Mr. Whitaker's appointment violated federal statutes and the Constitution.
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Then, he says, he was presented with the infamous letters from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticizing Comey and recommending his firing.
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Led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, the lawsuit said that without the individual mandate, Obamacare in its entirety was unlawful.
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Due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions's recusal from all campaign-related investigations, Mueller is not reporting to Sessions, but instead to the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein.
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Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself due to his involvement in the Trump campaign, are Republicans.
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Mike Rogers: Former director of the National Security Agency Rod Rosenstein: Current deputy attorney general and former acting attorney general for the Russian election interference investigation Sarah Sanders: White House press secretary Jeff Sessions: Former attorney general and former Alabama senator Sean Spicer: Former White House press secretary and former White House communications director Sally Yates: Former acting attorney general and former deputy attorney general Go deeper: The other Don: McGahn is one of the Mueller report's biggest stars 7 takeaways from the Mueller report What Trump did, and why Mueller didn't reach conclusions
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"I request disclosure from the Department of Justice senior leadership/senior personnel in the Office of Attorney General, the Office of Deputy Attorney General, the Associate Attorney General, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs and the Office of Public Affairs the following records: "213.
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Attorney general Loretta Lynch addresses the uptick in hate crime Attorney general Loretta Lynch addresses the uptick in hate crime Outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed the "alarming trends" in recently released 123 hate crime data in a video statement posted to YouTube by the Justice Department Friday.
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Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Start date: January 20, 2017 (was deputy attorney general in Obama administration) End date: January 30, 20173 Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, was asked to stay on briefly and lead the Justice Department until Jeff Sessions was confirmed as attorney general.
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He brought that recommendation to the President, the attorney general concurred with that recommendation, and I personally am grateful that we have a President who is willing to provide the kind of decisive and strong leadership to take the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general.
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" In a letter of support for Mr. Barr's nomination, former Justice Department officials including former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and James M. Cole, an Obama administration deputy attorney general, wrote that Mr. Barr, who was attorney general under Mr. Bush, served without "regard to favor or politics.
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"Although the attorney general is a principal officer, it does not follow that an acting attorney general should be understood to be one," Engel wrote in the opinion.
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However, we found it extraordinary that Comey assessed that it was best that the FBI director not speak directly with the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.
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In the case of the Russia investigation, that person would be Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Mueller's probe because of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal.
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That decision was left to Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who concluded that the report did not support an obstruction offense against Trump.
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Trump said that he had been planning to fire the former FBI Director regardless of the guidance from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital, and Comey was acting attorney general, and he had refused to reauthorize the program because of concerns over its legality.
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Cornyn is the second GOP lawmaker to remove himself from consideration, just days after he interviewed with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rep.
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The attorney general, deputy attorney general and other political appointees of the president likely would have been required to recuse themselves from investigation of the president's political campaign.
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" On Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump fired Comey "based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Whitaker, who previously served as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was vaulted to the position of acting attorney general on Wednesday after Trump fired Sessions.
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In other healthcare news... Wisconsin's attorney general says state can't withdraw from Texas' ObamaCare lawsuit Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) on Thursday told newly sworn-in Gov.
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D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, both Democrats, don't think setting up the trust was enough to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Now, both California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said they would file lawsuits seeking to prevent Trump from ending the subsidies.
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"I don't know Matt Whitaker," Trump said of the new acting attorney general, saying he hired him because he had worked for since-dismissed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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"The deputy attorney general oversees all the federal prosecutors across America," said Elliot Williams, who served a deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs during the Obama administration.
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The Attorney General, Elliot L. Richardson, refused to carry out the order and was fired; Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than carry out Nixon's order.
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Attorney General Sessions sent Trump a May 9 letter attaching a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on "Restoring Confidence in the FBI" that recommended Comey's dismissal.
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After that back-and-forth, McGahn arranged for an Oval Office meeting to discuss the firing with Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Comey was deputy attorney general at the time, and was serving as the acting head of the Justice Department while Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital.
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James Comey was dismissed from his post as FBI director, the White House said, on the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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We know that Trump has wanted to fire both his attorney general and his deputy attorney general because he feels they've failed to protect him from this investigation.
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They also allege he violated a succession statute which calls for the deputy attorney general - in this case Rod Rosenstein - to take over temporarily as acting attorney general.
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Two weeks later in Washington, while the war continued, President Richard Nixon forced out his attorney general and deputy attorney general, then fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Over the next four years, as he rose to deputy attorney general, then attorney general, Mr. Barr put into practice his expansive view of the executive branch's authority.
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The deputy attorney general, now Mr. Rosenstein, would normally be in line to become the acting attorney general, but Mr. Trump has complained publicly about Mr. Rosenstein, too.
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To dismiss a special counsel, the president has to order the attorney general or, in the case of a recusal, the deputy attorney general, to carry it out.
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In 1989, President George Bush appointed him to lead the Justice Department's powerful Office of Legal Counsel, later elevating him to deputy attorney general and then attorney general.
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Typically, this would be the attorney general — but since Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe, it falls to his second in command, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Near the desk of the deputy attorney general is a painting of former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who pressed to expand the Justice Department's powers after Sept. 11.
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Separately, Maryland has asked a federal judge to declare that the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, is the rightful acting attorney general — not Matthew Whitaker, the president's choice.
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Besides the letters from the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, do you have any information on who may have recommended or have been involved in your firing?
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The suit also names Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey as a defendant because Massachusetts state law requires the attorney general to be a party to matters involving charities.
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More recently, as Puerto Rico's Attorney General, I presented a similar request to the White House Counsel, W. Neil Eggleston, and the U.S. Attorney General, Loretta E. Lynch.
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson were part of the group of state officials in Washington for the meeting, according to their offices.
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Mueller was chosen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a former United States attorney, because Rosenstein's boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, had recused himself from the Russia investigation.
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Rather, Mueller will finish his task by reporting privately to his boss (which, given the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, would be Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein).
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And, according to CNN's Gloria Borger, Trump's fury is more directed at Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein than at Mueller at the moment.
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New York Attorney General Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement to Reuters he will keep sharing information and best practices with other states to improve oversight.
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But subsequent filings were approved by members of Mr. Trump's own administration: the acting attorney general, Dana J. Boente, and then Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general.
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"The deputy attorney general, backed by the attorney general of this administration, laid out in excruciating detail all of the protocols and rules that [Comey] broke," Clinton said.
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During Easter weekend, on April 25, 230, the family negotiated on the phone with Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder into the wee hours.
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Deputy attorney general nominee Rod Rosenstein and associate attorney general nominee Rachel Brand will face the national spotlight Tuesday during their confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Josh Shapiro, the incoming Democratic attorney general of Pennsylvania, said he had turned down a run for the Senate this year in favor of the attorney general race.
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Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 campaign, the power to fire Mueller falls to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Mr. Boente (pronounced BEN-tay) is expected to serve as acting attorney general until Mr. Trump's nominee for attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, is confirmed.
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The lawsuit, brought by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, both Democrats, was filed Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, along with 18 other state attorneys general, also announced a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's new rule.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions says it's safer ... for agents Attorney General Jeff Sessions says it's safer ... for agents Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly have a bone to pick with California's top judge over her allegation that immigration agents are "stalking" undocumented immigrants at courthouses.
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As Attorney General, Jeff Sessions will have near total control of immigration courts As Attorney General, Jeff Sessions will have near total control of immigration courts So far, most of the attention around Jeff Sessions' nomination as attorney general has focused on the senator's track record on civil rights and race.
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He fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who multiple reports have found was a target of his ire because he recused himself from the Russia investigation, and replaced him with acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and then Attorney General William Barr, both of whom have been critical of the Mueller investigation.
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Flake's move comes after Trump forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign and appointed Matt Whitaker, a Trump loyalist who has repeatedly criticized Mueller's investigation, as acting attorney general.
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And here's another one from the AP. Gab cries foul as Pennsylvania attorney general subpoenas DNS provider Pennsylvania's attorney general sent a subpoena to Epic, Gab's new DNS provider.
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And since he previously served as a federal prosecutor and Alabama's attorney general, he's a natural fit, in terms of career qualifications, for the job of US attorney general.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a career Justice Department official already confirmed by the Senate, should have been named the new attorney general.
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Trump also vented extensively about Mueller, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the investigation.
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The company has also previously been named in probes such as an investigation by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and a lawsuit by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
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Under Bush as deputy attorney general and attorney general, he pushed for more punitive criminal justice policies and supported a department book that made the case for more incarceration.
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He has served on special assignment as an Associate Deputy Attorney General since January 2017 and as chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein since December 2017.
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" Here's how the explanations have shifted: White House statement "President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The suit, being filed Monday by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, says Trump has engaged in "unprecedented constitutional violations," the Washington Post reports.
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Former title: Attorney General Attorney General Jeff Sessions submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump on November 7, via a letter hand-delivered to Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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With Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused from the Russia investigation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the only official with the power to fire Mueller under current federal regulations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acting associate attorney general at the U.S. Justice Department, Stuart Delery, will be leaving his job on April 14, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday.
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The attorney general was at a White House meeting when the notification came from Rosenstein, prompting the enraged President to scold the attorney general for the turn of events.
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In 2013, President Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country" -- though only after calling her brilliant, dedicated and tough.
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"Congress needs to have immediate emergency hearings to obtain testimony directly from Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions, the deputy attorney general and FBI Director Comey," Cummings said in a statement.
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They're not Cox, nor the two men—acting Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus—who resigned rather than fire the special prosecutor on Nixon's behalf.
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The AG Succession Act provides that in the case of the vacancy of the office of Attorney General, the deputy attorney general would exercise all duties of the office.
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"I've worked with both the last attorney general … and this attorney general, and I really don't believe they'll do it," he said of Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, respectively.
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For Mueller, that power is held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who took over supervision of the Russia investigation when Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last spring.
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The lawsuit brought by Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh also seeks to challenge President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, another bone of partisan contention.
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Wallace postures and invokes the Civil War, while Kennedy; his brother Robert, at the time the attorney general; and Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general, map their legal strategy.
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The next boss in line to oversee Mueller is Bill Barr, who was attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration and is again nominated to be attorney general.
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"It's a mystery why Rudy Giuliani feels the need to relitigate incidents the attorney general and deputy attorney general have concluded were not obstruction," he said in a statement.
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Terwilliger was deputy attorney general, Raphaelson served as special counsel for the financial institutions fraud unit and Cox was deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
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At the time, CNN reported that Trump was considering tapping the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, to succeed acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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Barr's memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, who leads the Office of Legal Counsel, was unsolicited, according to a Justice Department official.
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The AG Succession Act provides that in the case of the vacancy of the office of Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General would exercise all duties of the office.
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" District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said in a statement that they intend to "pursue our legal options to hold him accountable.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 presidential campaign, so only Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has the power to fire Mueller.
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It needs to be an independent prosecutor, and cannot report to the attorney general and should not be someone who reports to someone who reports to the attorney general.
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The news means Barr, who formerly served as President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, will replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions if the Republican-controlled Senate approves Trump's nomination.
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The AG Succession Act provides that in the case of the vacancy of the office of attorney general, the deputy attorney general would exercise all duties of the office.
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"Jeff would have a good chance if he ran," said George J. Terwilliger III, a former deputy attorney general and acting attorney general, who served under President George Bush.
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In 1989, President George Bush appointed him to lead the Justice Department's powerful Office of Legal Counsel, and later elevated him to deputy attorney general and then attorney general.
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Trump reportedly raised the prospect of investigating Comey and Clinton with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who took over following Jeff Sessions' ouster.
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But those officials are always supervised by higher-ups; in the case of the solicitor general, by the attorney general and deputy attorney general, both confirmed by the Senate.
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The Epstein debacle is arguably the biggest crisis so far for Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who have spent days overseeing the department's response.
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In announcing Mr. Comey's dismissal on Tuesday, the White House released documents from the attorney general and the deputy attorney general that outlined why Mr. Comey should be fired.
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Further, any attorney general faces a political conundrum: By changing the policy, the attorney general places the very person who nominated him or her directly in the firing line.
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To do that, in all likelihood, Mueller would first seek permission from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel because of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal.
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Last June, she sent a "confidential" letter to Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, alleging prosecutorial misconduct and abuses by the FBI in Flynn's case.
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"I think if the attorney general says it's getting in the way of doing his job, maybe the president should listen to the attorney general," McConnell told Fox News.
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He then served as counsel to the Deputy Attorney General (1993–2005), special assistant to the criminal division's Assistant Attorney General (1994–95) and associate independent counsel (1995–97).
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The attorney general at the time, Henry Stanberry, quit his day job to represent the President full time -- something that Trump's attorney general has not signaled plans to do.
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Decision rests with attorney general Even after police issue any possible recommendation to indict, it will be up to Attorney General Mandelblit to decide whether to follow that recommendation.
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They included former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former FBI Director James Comey, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
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When the Attorney General of the United States is caught misleading or lying to Congress, such an occurrence is shocking and has historically forced the Attorney General to resign.
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The Attorney General preferred to make that — preferred to make the entire report public all at once, and we appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public.
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It was reviewed by the attorney general and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to decide which parts of it should be made available to Congress, and which should not.
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Jeff Sessions -- Trump's pick for attorney general -- abstaining.
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Maryland contends that his appointment violates not just the appointments clause, but also that custom and statute dictate that Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general, should be named attorney-general.
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The civil rights icon will testify against Trump's pick for attorney general The civil rights icon will testify against Trump's pick for attorney general Democratic senators have requested that Rep.
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Under President Donald Trump, the Justice Department has taken a wide array of anti-LGBT positions, guided by former attorney general Jeff Sessions and former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker.
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State records indicate that the donations went to Adam Laxalt, the then-Nevada attorney general and 2018 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and Wesley Karl Duncan, who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general.
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Attorney General Bill Barr Attorney General Bill Barr has defended President Trump since he singlehandedly quashed the Mueller findings with his preemptive declaration that there was nothing there to see.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate William Barr, who served as attorney general under former president George H.W. Bush, to be his next attorney general.
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"It is the continued desire of the Attorney General to seek justice in the murder of Hae Min Lee," The Maryland Office of the Attorney General said in a statement.
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The Trump administration has said Comey's firing was unrelated to the Russia investigation and followed a meeting on Monday with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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In it, he flings criticisms at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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In it, he flings criticisms at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former FBI director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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"I will do all within my power to see that the office of attorney general is in the best possible shape for whenever the next attorney general arrives," Castor said.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), left, swears in Associate Attorney General nominee Rachel Brand and Deputy Attorney General nominee Rod Rosenstein during their confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
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President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions set these events in motion by dispatching the highly respected former Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to craft a rationale to fire Comey.
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Here are White House press secretary Sean Spicer's announcement, the letter to Comey from Trump, the letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the memo from the deputy attorney general.
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While serving as deputy attorney general in 2004, he famously raced to the hospital bedside of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to block the recertification of a controversial counterterrorism program.
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Vullo, a litigator from New York law firm Paul Weiss, also served as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice in 2010 under then New York State Attorney General Cuomo.
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Take a look at page 6900 of Attorney General Barbara Underwood's lawsuit against ExxonMobil and you will see one of the listed prosecutors is Special Assistant Attorney General Matthew Eisenson.
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He previously served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993 and then as Acting Attorney General of the United States.
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He was appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions by the very (now former) governor he was investigating as Alabama attorney general, Robert Bentley.
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Washington (CNN)Washington is swirling with speculation about who President Donald Trump will choose to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the President ousted his first attorney general Wednesday afternoon.
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But Republicans who might trust Attorney General Barr with such a broad power might pause to consider how the FBI or a future Attorney General might treat their own supporters.
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Outside groups had spent months softening up former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's (D) image, criticizing a backlog of rape kits that had piled up while she was attorney general.
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They demanded documents and information from Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, and Maura T. Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, and also from several activist groups.
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In a statement praising Bharara for his "integrity, tenacity, and commitment to rooting out wrongdoing," Democratic New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman blasted Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The other two nominations were Rod Rosenstein, of Maryland, to be Deputy Attorney General, and Rachel Brand, of Iowa, to be Associate Attorney General, both of the Department of Justice.
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The suit, which you can read in full below, was brought by Democrats Karl Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, and Brian Frosh, the Maryland attorney general.
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Jeff Sessions will be Trump's attorney general — and Democrats are powerless to stop him Jeff Sessions will be Trump's attorney general — and Democrats are powerless to stop him Alabama Sen.
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After Sessions's confirmation as attorney general, Alabama's then-governor, Robert Bentley, filled the seat with an appointee who was well-liked by the GOP establishment — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.
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"It's a mystery why Rudy Giuliani feels the need to relitigate incidents the attorney general and deputy attorney general have concluded were not obstruction," Mr. Burck said in a statement.
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Earlier this week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, along with 18 other state attorneys general, announced a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's new rule.
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Challenge to attorney general: A federal judge said Attorney General William Barr had put forward a "distorted" account of the findings of the report by the special counsel Robert Mueller.
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The state's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, argued in the lawsuit that the Justice Department's threat, made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month, undermines public safety and violates the Constitution.
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As California's first female attorney general, she sifted through the language that was written into the law — statutes referring to the attorney general as "he" or "his" — and changed them.
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"I believe the attorney general or deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and Constitution and give their independent legal advice to the president," Ms. Yates replied.
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Last September, nearly every attorney general in the United States announced that they would take part in an antitrust investigation of Google led by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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A Justice Department official said the rule was signed off by Attorney General Jeff Sessions before he tendered his resignation this week, not the new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker.
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Whitaker's tenure as acting attorney general looks to be nearing an end, as the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on attorney general nominee William Barr's nomination on Thursday.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to his post and has said he would not fire him, but a new attorney general would have the power to do so.
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In 1972 Richard G. Kleindienst, the acting attorney general, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a confirmation hearing on his nomination by President Richard Nixon to be attorney general.
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Within hours of the polls closing on Election Day, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had been ousted from the Trump administration, to be replaced by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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Her dismissal drew comparisons to President Richard M. Nixon's firing of his attorney general and deputy attorney general over their refusal to dismiss the special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
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So, here's what we know: The President of the United States has railed against the attorney general, might lose the deputy attorney general and wanted to fire the special counsel.
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He is assistant attorney general for Connecticut, not attorney general This story appears in VoxCare, a newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America's health care debate.
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Mr. Barr said that Mr. Mueller's report to the attorney general will be "confidential," but the attorney general will then produce his own report to Congress based on that material.
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Under President George H.W. Bush, he served as the head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, then as deputy attorney general and ultimately attorney general from 1991 to 1993.
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"It's a mystery why Rudy Giuliani feels the need to relitigate incidents the attorney general and deputy attorney general have concluded were not obstruction," said the lawyer, William A. Burck.
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Trump's pick for attorney general has legal weed advocates freaking out Trump's pick for attorney general has legal weed advocates freaking out President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Sen.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation into Trump's connections to Russia, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's objectivity is compromised in the eyes of many critics.
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It also accused Trump of violating a federal law that establishes the line of succession if the attorney general post becomes vacant, giving full authority to the deputy attorney general.
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Giuliani could be Trump's dream attorney general Giuliani could be Trump's dream attorney general After weeks of tension — and even some direct blows — between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the president is now reportedly considering former two-time New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to head the Department of Justice.
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" Sean Spicer on Fox Business "The Deputy Attorney General… made a determination that the FBI director had lost his confidence, made a recommendation to the Attorney General, the Attorney General concurred with that and forwarded that recommendation on to the president who agreed with their conclusions and terminated the FBI Director's position.
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Democrat Letitia "Tish" James became New York's attorney general, and, in doing so, broke a trifecta of records: She's the state's first woman to be elected attorney general, the first black person to be elected attorney general in New York, and the first black woman elected to office in the Empire State.
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By tossing the Obamacare lawsuit, Hollander avoided having to decide on the lawfulness of Whitaker's appointment, although the judge did say Maryland had presented "sound arguments" in support of its contention that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have become acting attorney general when Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November.
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"These circumstances generally, and Attorney General Barr's lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr's credibility and in turn, the Department's representation that 'all of the information redacted from the version of the [Mueller] Report released by [ ] Attorney General [Barr]' is protected from disclosure by its claimed FOIA exemptions," Walton wrote.
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The decision by the acting attorney general is a remarkable rebuke by a government official to a sitting president that recalls the dramatic "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973, when President Richard M. Nixon fired his attorney general and deputy attorney general for refusing to dismiss the special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
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Attorney general visits U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch traveled Tuesday to Florida to visit with survivors of the Orlando nightclub shooting and check up on the investigation into shooter Mateen's rampage.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and a third senior Justice Department official are believed by law enforcement officials to be crucial fact witnesses in the obstruction probe.
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By entering the race for attorney general, Ellison is taking on the state party&aposs endorsed candidate as well as longtime Democratic state lawmaker and former Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder (took himself out of consideration on March 224, 22016) AGE: 238 STATE: New York KNOWN FOR: Holder served as President Barack Obama's attorney general until 28.
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In a statement released that day, the White House said Trump's decision to fire Comey was based on the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Mueller did not make a decision on that last question, though Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein found that there was insufficient evidence the president committed obstruction.
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Ten days later came the Saturday Night Massacre in which Nixon fired his attorney general and deputy attorney general after they both refused to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
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The four-sentence statement from Press Secretary Sean Spicer included the nugget that the firing was based on "clear recommendations" from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation in March because of his close involvement in the Trump campaign, leaving oversight of Mueller up to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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On August 21992, 19973, Mary C. Lawton, the acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, hand-delivered a three-page memorandum to the deputy attorney general.
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Former Attorney General Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Thompson both said that states that have broken with federal law and voted to legalize marijuana may be in for a reckoning.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to agree to roll back DACA, which President Barack Obama enacted in 2012.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came to Trump at a meeting on Monday with concerns about Comey.
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In mid-February, Attorney General William Barr was sworn in and Whitaker stepped down from the top post to become a senior counselor in the office of the associate attorney general.
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Both Nixon's attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest, and the "massacre" marked a key step in the scandal that led to his resignation less than a year later.
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"President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a Tuesday statement.
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Trump has denied any such collusion and reportedly has considered firing Mueller, as well as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein out of anger over the probe.
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And it leaves anyone on the outside wondering what other potential disasters top officials like McGahn, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein might have prevented.
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Terwilliger has been serving as associate deputy attorney general and chief of staff under Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- the number two at the department who is overseeing the Russia investigation.
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Barr noted to senators that under Justice Department regulations, there are actually two reports: Mueller's final report to the attorney general, and whatever the attorney general decides to release about it.
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From 22019 to 2017, as a senior executive at the Justice Department, I served on the hiring committee responsible for recommending new judges to the Deputy Attorney General and Attorney General.
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WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - The acting associate attorney general at the U.S. Justice Department, Stuart Delery, will be leaving his job on April 14, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday.
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The former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general whom Mr. Trump abruptly fired in the first few days of his presidency, will speak.
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Matthew G. Whitaker, Mr. Sessions's chief of staff, would become acting deputy attorney general, an unusual move; typically, a top aide to the deputy attorney general would take over the post.
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Maryland also argued that Rosenstein should have succeeded Sessions under the separate federal law that vests full authority in the deputy attorney general should the office of attorney general become vacant.
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Starr did not have to report to the attorney general or anyone else at the Justice Department, and the attorney general didn't have veto power over Starr's investigative and prosecutorial decisions.
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A Justice Department guideline holds that an official cannot be both acting attorney general and acting deputy attorney general but experts differ on whether that rule would have to be followed.
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James Comey was dismissed from his post as FBI director, the White House said at the time, on the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The DC Circuit judges said that Rosenstein, who became acting attorney general following Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from the Russia probe, had the ability to appoint Mueller under the Constitution.
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Matt Whitaker, despite having none of the requisite qualifications to be attorney general, was nonetheless made acting attorney general -- violating longstanding procedure at a critical time for the Department of Justice.
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Previously, the DC attorney general alongside Maryland's attorney general sued the President, alleging he had received illegal payments from foreign governments and other states through the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
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Last weekend, Dowd called on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has oversight over the Russian probe because of Attorney General Jeff Session's recusal, to end that investigation by Mueller's office.
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But he caught the eye of Attorney General John N. Mitchell and was brought to Washington in 20083 as an assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's civil division.
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"States have already begun preparations for handling the bankruptcy proceedings," North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R) said in an email obtained by NPR.
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In addition to Comey, congressional Republicans requested interviews last month with two former senior Obama Justice Department officials: former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Deputy acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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Any replacement of Rosenstein by Trump, therefore, would be a replacement of his deputy attorney general position, not a replacement of the other role, acting attorney general for the Russia probe.
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I had a process when I was attorney general of not weighing in on bills and initiatives, because as attorney general, I had a responsibility for writing the title and summary.
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Mr. Barr said that Mr. Mueller's report to the attorney general would be "confidential," but that the attorney general would then produce his own report to Congress based on that material.
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Donald Trump and his intended attorney general signal a dramatic shift for reforms Donald Trump and his intended attorney general signal a dramatic shift for reforms If and when Alabama Sen.
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Barr will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and current acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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Ronald Reagan appointed him as US attorney for Massachusetts, George H.W. Bush appointed him an assistant attorney general, and George W. Bush as deputy attorney general and then later FBI director.
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Before the Justice Department signed off on the merger, a multistate lawsuit, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was filed on June 11.
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" "We cannot take Attorney General Barr's word for it.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said last months that .
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SESSIONS: — Policy that goes beyond just the attorney general.
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He can't get along with ... his own attorney general.
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Additional Reading • Is an Attorney General Independent or Political?
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We didn't say so — the attorney general said so!
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It's simple — he should not be the Attorney General.
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" "The attorney general is an agent of the President.
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But it's still not known whether the attorney general will do so publicly But it's still not known whether the attorney general will do so publicly Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Rosenstein was left leading the Russia probe for the Justice Department following Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal -- a decision causing immense friction between the attorney general and the president to this day.
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In this case, Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the Trump-Russia probe so the determination fell to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, who justified his decision using rationale No. 2.
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But news reports revealed this week that Mueller had written a letter to Barr expressing concerns about how the attorney general depicted the "substance" of the report — before the attorney general testified.
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Former US attorney general Eric Holder Former attorney general Eric Holder on Tuesday compared Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and to the Sept.
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The charges were released by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who's leading the investigation into Russian election tampering because of the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the investigation.
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The review is being overseen by Associate Deputy Attorney General Ryan Shores, while Deputy Assistant Attorney General Alex Okuliar, who is new to the antitrust division, is also involved in the review.
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The review is being overseen by Associate Deputy Attorney General Ryan Shores, while Deputy Assistant Attorney General Alex Okuliar, who is new to the antitrust division, is also involved in the review.
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But when Delaware's attorney general, Jane Brady, resigned to take up a judicial post, the state's governor appointed Carl Danberg to serve as a placeholder attorney general who wouldn't run for reelection.
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At the change of the White House, Sally Yates was the deputy attorney general, so she was the first assistant — that would be the default of who served as acting attorney general.
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Mueller did not uncover sufficient evidence to show Trump-Russia coordination, and Attorney General William Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was insufficient evidence for an obstruction offense.
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While watching Harris interrogate Attorney General William Barr, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Loftus remembered facing that same skeptical gaze and unsparing questioning from Harris.
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Rather than a tweet about ending the Mueller probe, President Trump could try calling Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is serving as acting attorney general and supervising Mueller following Sessions' recusal.
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Bork fired the Watergate special prosecutor in October 1973 after the attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time resigned rather than carry out President Nixon's orders to fire the prosecutor.
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REPORTER: Mr. President, speaking of the attorney general, how would you categorize your relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and have you spoken about the differences you have had in the past?
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Among those looped in: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who began fine-tuning their rationale for removing Comey from his post shortly after learning of Trump's intentions.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other law enforcement officials hold a news conference to announce an "international cybercrime enforcement action" at the Department of Justice on Thursday.
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Turning it up: Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and DC Attorney General Karl Racine have just served Trump with a lawsuit that basically cites conflicts of interest over foreign affairs and business.
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The letter comes as these leaders gather for an event in D.C. advocating for criminal justice reform alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates and Republican Sen.
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Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Bill Baer and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Sonia K. Pfaffenroth of the Antitrust Division will also participate, the department said in a statement, without providing further details.
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"The Attorney General has stated that investigations and prosecutions of unauthorized disclosure of controlled information are a priority of the Department of Justice," said Assistant Attorney General John Demers in a statement.
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"The attorney general seemed almost to be acting as the counselor for the defense, the counselor for the president, rather than the attorney general, talking about his motives, his emotions," Wallace said.
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that he would sue to block the end of net neutrality rules, becoming the latest state attorney general to announce a challenge to the repeal.
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"The attorney general seemed almost to be acting as the counselor for the defense, the counselor for the president, rather than the attorney general, talking about his motives, his emotions," he said.
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Lawsuits against pharma companies may seem like the kind of thing only Democrats do, but it should be noted that Ohio Attorney General DeWine and Missouri Attorney General Hawley are both Republicans.
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However, lawyers for Mr. Steyer have confirmed that he never made campaign contributions to Attorney General Schneiderman, nor has he contributed to any organization known to be affiliated with Attorney General Schneiderman.
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"Yes, I have total confidence in the attorney general; I think he ought to stay exactly where he is," McConnell told reporters on Tuesday, asked if he still supported the attorney general.
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Remember that former President Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" refers to the resignations of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general because they weren't willing to fire special counsel Archibald Cox.
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Trump has openly blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the federal Russia probe, leading to speculation he may try and find a new attorney general who would fire Mueller.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions told White House counsel Don McGahn last weekend that if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was fired, he "would have to consider leaving," according to the Washington Post.
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Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman, Media Fairness Caucus; Edwin Meese, attorney general under President Ronald Reagan; Dave Bossie, president of Citizens United; and Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia, among others.
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EST: President Obama meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and ATF Deputy Director Thomas Brandon to discuss executive actions to curb gun violence.
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The lawsuit brought by the attorney general of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, is a first step by a state attorney general to punish the social media giant for privacy violations.
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The attorney general said that Mr. Mueller did not explicitly ask that Congress be allowed to judge the evidence and decide for itself, nor did he say that the attorney general should.
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Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from criminal investigations arising from the 2016 election, Mr. Rosenstein is the acting attorney general for such matters and also appointed and oversees Mr. Mueller.
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It also requests documents and communications "relating to President Trump, the Office of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or the Executive Office of the President's involvement or interest" in those matters.
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Rosenstein, who is preparing to leave his job soon after attorney general nominee William Barr takes office, has overseen the Mueller probe since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in 2017.
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The Mueller investigation and the Cohen raid all involve a Republican attorney general, a Republican deputy attorney general, a Republican U.S. district attorney, a Republican FBI director and a Republican special counsel.
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He was accused of promoting an attorney general who would pursue reduced charges against a minister in his government, but the sitting attorney general said there wasn't enough evidence to file charges.
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I'm going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States — my attorney general, Bill Barr — he's got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.
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The President hinted at his belief that the attorney general should serve as a kind of personal legal bodyguard when he voiced his opinion of former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder.
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The findings come as the Senate is considering the nomination of Bill Barr to be attorney general, and as acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker prepares to appear before the House Judiciary Committee.
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In July 2019, the Connecticut Attorney General launched an investigation into Juul's marketing practices and health claims, following May 2019 action by the North Carolina Attorney General against Juul for targeting youth.
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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, the Justice Department's new No. 2 under Attorney General William Barr, sent a copy of the letter to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on June 11.
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That was when former President Richard Nixon ordered his Attorney General — and then his Deputy Attorney General and then his Solicitor General — to fire the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal.
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For example, in 2003, then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey (who is now the FBI director), in his capacity as acting attorney general (upon recusal of Attorney General John Ashcroft), named Patrick Fitzgerald special counsel to investigate who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson amid mounting public pressure for an independent examination of the allegations.
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The NAACP is protesting Trump's pick to be attorney general The NAACP is protesting Trump's pick to be attorney general Civil rights activists and members of the NAACP began a sit-in at the Mobile office of Alabama senator Jeff Sessions Tuesday morning, demanding that his nomination for U.S. Attorney General be revoked by President-elect Donald Trump.
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What should Justice Department officials, particularly Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, and Attorney General designate William Barr, be planning to do?
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West Virginia's attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, led the session, "The Dangerous Consequences of the Clean Power Plan & Other E.P.A. Rules," which included, according to the agenda, Scott Pruitt, then the attorney general of Oklahoma; Ken Paxton, Texas' attorney general; and Geoffrey Barnes, a corporate lawyer for Murray, which had donated $250,000 to the Republican attorneys general political group.
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The solicitor general is the fourth in line of succession at the Justice Department, but with the associate attorney general spot still vacant since Rachel Brand departed, and with Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused from matters involving the Russia investigation, Francisco would take over Rosenstein's responsibilities regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's probe once the deputy attorney general leaves.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has communicated to the White House and President Trump that he plans to leave office once William Barr is confirmed as attorney general, ABC News and CNN report.
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Attorney General William Barr and outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have ruined their reputations, Comey said, and don't have enough of a "strong character" to push back against Trump's more problematic instincts.
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Attorney General William Barr said both he and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that the evidence in the investigation was "not sufficient to establish" that Trump had committed obstruction of justice.
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Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for refusing to enforce the order but Dana Boente, her replacement, has vowed to enforce the order until Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen.
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" Yates replies: "Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
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When Cox obtained a subpoena, Nixon tried to get Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire him; instead, Richardson and Ruckelshaus refused to do so, and resigned instead.
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All emails from the account of Matthew Whitaker, formerly Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and now the Acting Attorney General, that mentions or refers to Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, Russia.
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Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen also issued a written inquiry to Facebook to answer questions about the matter and Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro told NPR that his office is reviewing the matter.
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Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Two high-profile members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus introduced articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday.
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Maura Healey, the attorney-general of Massachusetts, which has a Republican governor, and Eric Schneiderman, the attorney-general of New York, have both expressed their willingness to square off against the federal government.
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When Trump fired then–FBI director James Comey, though, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — who is overseeing the investigation due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal — appointed Mueller to take over the investigation.
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In explaining the decision, Attorney General William Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered not only whether the acts were "obstructive" but also the president's intent in taking those steps.
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" On the fate of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: When asked if he planned on firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump said "we'll see," but his "preference would be to keep him.
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The case by Oklahoma Attorney General Attorney General Mike Hunter was the first to go to trial out of thousands of cases brought by state and local governments against opioid manufacturers and distributors.
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"We are going to have to, perhaps, talk to the attorney general about it or do something," Trump said when O'Reilly asked if Trump would order his attorney general to investigate the group.
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Finally, on Wednesday morning, both ABC News and NBC News reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plans to step down if Bill Barr is confirmed as attorney general in the coming weeks.
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What were the specific reasons behind your decision to disregard the Justice Department's statutory line of succession and bypass Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein in order to install Mr. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General?
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The group, headed by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, suggests Congress take action to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from drafting similar regulations in the future.
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"Especially now, because as of this morning you had an [attorney general] who was impotent, you had a possibly non-existent [deputy attorney general], and the solicitor general possibly taking over," he added.
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The President found an official to fire Archibald Cox, a special prosecutor investigating Nixon's inner circle for obstructing justice, after the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General resigned rather than do so.
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" Elliot Williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general in Obama's Justice Department, criticized Trump for an "unlawful" view of the role of an attorney general and said nominee William Barr should be "troubled.
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"As the attorney general and not to bind my successors, yes, I believe on a close call as the attorney general of the United States that I made the right decision," he said.
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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh claim in the lawsuit that Trump is profiting from foreign governments without congressional approval due to foreign officials staying in his hotel.
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" Yates responded: "Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president.
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"The court finds the allegations about Attorney General Healey and the anticipatory nature of Attorney General Healey's remarks about the outcome of the Exxon investigation to be concerning to this court," he wrote.
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Trump's thwarted firing of Mueller calls to mind Nixon's famous Saturday Night Massacre, when he fired special counsel Archibald Cox (after also firing Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Bill Ruckelshaus).
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The deputy attorney general, who made the recommendation to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe, has long been a target of Trump's ire.
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But Howell didn't buy that argument either, pointing to the fact that various federal statutes allow the attorney general to delegate the authority to appoint a special counsel to the deputy attorney general.
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The answer came in a convoluted four-page letter to Congress from newly installed attorney general Bill Barr, who spent the weekend sorting through Mueller's final report with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.
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Comey appointed Fitzgerald as special counsel After Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself in the Plame investigation, a newly installed deputy Attorney General named James Comey was put in charge of the probe.
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As Mattis and other top officials cast their eyes downward and assumed clenched-jawed expressions, Trump tore into his attorney general, deputy attorney general and former FBI director in a strident, partisan attack.
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They likened the move to the Watergate scandal, when President Richard Nixon's attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned instead of heeding the president's request to fire the special prosecutor investigating the scandal.
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As early as Tuesday evening, anonymous White House sources were telling reporters that the decision to fire Comey hadn't come from Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein or Attorney General Sessions, but from Trump himself.
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The roundtable guest list: Donald Trump Mike Pence John Kelly Stephen Miller Attorney General Jeff Sessions DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen ICE acting Director Tom Homan Gene Hamilton, Counselor to the Attorney General Rep.
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We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States.
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Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former campaign adviser, has recused himself from the Russia investigation — to Mr. Trump's continuing irritation — the task would fall to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.
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"Senator, I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president," Yates replied.
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Yates: Senator, I believe that the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution, and to give their independent legal advice to the president.
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The president could also muzzle Mueller, and forestall an indictment, by firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointing a friendly attorney general who wouldn't have to recuse himself from supervising the Russia probe.
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With that, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and more than a dozen other state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the administration to challenge the new rule.
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Another suit filed by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D), joined by Minnesota's Democratic attorney general, says the order harms state residents, employers and educational institutions by separating families and damaging the economy.
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Other military leaders looked on silently as the commander in chief attacked his attorney general, deputy attorney general and special counsel in a blistering partisan attack that stood out even by Trump's standards.
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Both the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned rather than carry out those orders before the solicitor general, then the No. 3 official in the department, finally agreed to do so.
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In a statement, the agency said Ryan Shores, an associate deputy attorney general, and Alex Okuliar, a deputy assistant attorney general who joined the Justice Department last week, would oversee the tech review.
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Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker offered his support to William Barr on Wednesday, saying he would be happy to see the former attorney general take over the Justice Department's top position once again.
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Repeated pleading from me and the handful of reporters persuaded him to say more: The president had accepted the recommendation of his attorney general and deputy attorney general to terminate the F.B.I. director.
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And he faces investigations by, among others, Congress, special counsel Robert Mueller, the Southern District of New York, the attorney general of New York, the Washington, DC attorney general, and Hawaii Five-0.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Mexican Attorney General Raúl Cervantes Andrade said in a joint statement that the plan to extradite Yarrington to the United States depended on agreement by Italian authorities.
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Rosenstein has an unusually high profile for a deputy attorney general, in large part because he assumed oversight of the special counsel's Russia probe after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in 2017.
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Nixon's infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" occurred when the president ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus.
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And the further you go down the food chain — not the attorney general but the assistant attorney general for civil rights — the more likely you are to find generic party figures in jobs.
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North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem will appeal the dismissal.
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He's left his Attorney General position, allowing for a race.
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INGRAHAM: Senator Sessions, Attorney General Sessions, just one more question.
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The deputy attorney general controls the release of the report.
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Same with the second office I held as Attorney General.
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The attorney general is the person who makes the judgment.
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He did not name a deputy attorney general until May.
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She's also been endorsed by state Attorney General Hector Balderas.
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Tom Price; education pick Betsy DeVos; attorney general nominee Sen.
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The attorney general has said 56 people remain in custody.
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The OSC was appointed by former Attorney General Bill Schuette.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions declines to comment on the matter.
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Why did Attorney General Yates go against the Trump administration?
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Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than follow Nixon's orders.
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While Oklahoma's attorney general, he sued the EPA multiple times
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Judiciary committee vote on attorney general Also at 10 a.m.
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Whitaker, as acting attorney general, has oversight over Mueller's office.
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New York state Attorney General Barbara Underwood praised Scarpulla's decision.
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He sued the EPA 14 times as Oklahoma's attorney general.
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Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for attorney General, continues this morning.
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Josh Hawley, a Republican, is the Attorney General of Missouri.
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He's publicly berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself.
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Elizabeth Warren in the fight over Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Updated with a statement from Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
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He will be accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Attorney General William Barr, however, decided not to charge Trump.
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I told him I would speak to the Attorney General.
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This story was updated to include Attorney General Sessions' statement.
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Attorney General Bill Barr is a busy man these days.
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WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's last day is tomorrow.
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Attorney General Xavier Becerra is in Google and Facebook's backyard.
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One top contender has to be Attorney General William Barr.
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Attorney General William Barr was trying to withhold the material.
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Before coming to the EPA, Pruitt was Oklahoma's attorney general.
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Weeks after becoming attorney general, Sessions rescinded the guidance. Why?
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Next in line would be the associate attorney general. 2.
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A separate lawsuit by New York's attorney general is pending.
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It repeatedly mentions Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr.
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The California Democrat previously served as her state's attorney general.
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The New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, is also investigating.
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And second, it's submitted to the attorney general, not Congress.
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Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me.
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So did Janet Reno, Clinton's Attorney General at the time.
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An actual deputy attorney general had yet to be confirmed.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch has since formally ratified that recommendation.
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In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Sen.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation.
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Scott Brown and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Bloomberg reported.
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Another was filed by the New York State Attorney General.
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Jeff Sessions during his nomination to be Trump's attorney general.
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John Carlin is the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
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Trump nominated Sessions to serve as attorney general in November.
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MICHAEL MUKASEY, FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL: Good to be with you.
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I am back with former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions doesn't plan to take the hint.
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This included Kamala Harris, the former Attorney General of California.
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Attorney General Rutledge is evaluating options on how to proceed.
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The attorney general did exactly what he should have done.
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He was selected by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general.
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Christianity, as when the Pentecostal attorney general, John Ashcroft, wrote
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We know he usurped the power of the attorney general.
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Obama nominated Yates for deputy attorney general in December 2014.
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Here's a look at who's backing the embattled attorney general.
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I have just received topline findings from Attorney General Barr.
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Attorney General Luisa Ortega condemned the state's violence against protesters.
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Republican senator from Alabama, as the nation's 84th attorney general.
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But again, I have faith in the deputy attorney general.
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I urge the attorney general to reconsider his recent action.
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New York's attorney general is reportedly investigating Exxon Mobil Corp.
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State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman went after against AshleyMadison.
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He'll face competition, though, in the state attorney general primary.
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Xavier Becerra vacated the seat to become California's attorney general.
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Fired from her role as acting attorney general on Jan.
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Attorney General, raped me and Hillary tried to silence me.
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Already, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has been targeting Sen.
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He appointed his little brother Bobby to be attorney general.
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A spokesman for the New York attorney general declined comment.
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Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
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Jerry Brown (D) to replace Kamala Harris as attorney general.
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I have a certain status as the former attorney general.
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The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Oct.
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Mueller was appointed by acting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Attorney General Barr now needs the time to do that.
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Sessions is President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general.
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It's another when they hear it from the attorney general.
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The firing requires the "personal action" of the Attorney General.
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The case is brought by the attorney general of Hawaii.
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The attorney general of the District of Columbia also signed.
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But I never forget former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations into Russian
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Republicans tried to give the attorney general some cover. Sen.
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When he was the attorney general of Connecticut, he lied.
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Jerry Brown (D) appointed Becerra as his state's attorney general.
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The Bronze Star winner was a former Delaware attorney general.
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The attorney general recused himself from the investigation in March.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch withdrew on Tuesday, as did Gov.
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Barbara Underwood is currently serving as the state's attorney general.
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The state's Attorney General declined to comment on pending litigation.
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Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, is a Democrat.
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For the Republicans, Attorney General Mike DeWine faces Lt. Gov.
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"Attorney General Sessions: their blood is on your hands," Sen.
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She served as Connecticut attorney general from 1989 to 1991.
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" "I do believe that Barr is his own attorney general.
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Barr's qualifications for the position of attorney general are extraordinary.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) slammed the lawyers' request.
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That interpretation is apparently shared by Attorney General Bill Barr.
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Instead, he launched a campaign to become Minnesota's attorney general.
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"She was attorney general of New Hampshire," Shaheen told Politico.
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Ellison opted to run for Minnesota attorney general this year.
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There's some investigation by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Newly appointed Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was also there.
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At the time, Ohr was the associate deputy attorney general.
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Next in line was William Ruckelshaus, Richardson's deputy attorney general.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has repeatedly defended the administration policy.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch would then decide whether to indict.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the investigation.
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Xavier Becerra left Congress to be the California Attorney General.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn't been granted a similar reprieve.
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Hawley, the state attorney general, is seeking to unseat Sen.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the joint inquiry.
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A third investigation, by the state attorney general, is continuing.
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The New York attorney general has personally targeted Trump before.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch discusses the massacre in Orlando, Fla.
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But I do have faith in the new attorney general.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the administration's policy last month.
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