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Average approval time has been nine days slower for Trump appointees versus Obama's. Ten of 15 Cabinet agencies had no number two, several deputy secretaries were not nominated until after the Administration's 100-day mark, and some had not yet been nominated. [273] By October 2017, Trump had made 412 nominations.
[34] [35] [36] Trump also allowed Deirdre M. Daly and Richard S. Hartunian to remain in office for a period of several months until they completed 20 years of service at the Justice Department. [37] U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Preet Bharara: August 13, 2009 March 11, 2017 Bharara refused to resign and was fired. [38 ...
Seeking to investigate leaks of classified information, the Trump Justice Department in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and two members of ...
President Trump nominated 86 people to be U.S. attorneys, and 84 of them were confirmed. There are a total of 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice. During Trump's term, seven U.S. attorneys named were women, including acting attorneys, and one of his first 42 appointments was a woman.
The clearest precedent for choosing personal lawyers for top jobs at the Department of Justice is William French Smith, who was President Ronald Reagan’s first attorney general after serving as ...
For two weeks President Donald Trump's new administration has been racing to remake the Justice Department tasked with U.S. law enforcement. Leading the overhaul is Emil Bove, a lawyer who ...
WASHINGTON – As President-elect Donald Trump organizes his administration, a key decision will be who to name as attorney general to run a Department of Justice he and his allies say was ...
Donald Trump assumed office as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017, and his first term ended on January 20, 2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution .