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[a] Tillerson is the only Secretary of State since at least 1945 to have been fired. [34] Thomas A. Shannon Jr. January 20, 2017 February 1, 2017 Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs) February 12, 2016 June 4, 2018 Deputy Secretary of State: February 1, 2017 May 24, 2017 John Sullivan: May 24, 2017 December 20, 2019 Became Ambassador to ...
While the term 'special prosecutor' is sometimes used in historical discussions of such figures before 1983, the term 'special counsel' appears to have been frequently used as well, including, for example, in contemporary newspaper accounts [7] describing the first presidentially-appointed special counsel in 1875.
Statements from Trump and the White House suggested he had been dismissed to ease the "pressure" on Trump due to the Russia investigation. [45] [46] [47] Later that month he arranged for a friend to tell the press about a memo he had written after a February 14 private meeting with the president.
Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2020, ruled that Smith's 2022 appointment violated the U.S. Constitution because Congress did not authorize Garland to name a special counsel ...
Having laid out the evidence against the president-elect in exhaustive detail, much of which has been previously established, the special counsel states flatly that only Trump’s victory over ...
John Sauer, who argued the immunity dispute on Trump’s behalf before the Supreme Court, has been selected by Trump to be US solicitor general, the federal government’s top lawyer before the ...
Instead, he would appoint a Special Counsel, as had been done in the past. U.S. Attorneys serve as special counsel, but in May 2017 there were only three Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorneys serving at the time, the Senate having not yet confirmed the new president's nominees, and those three had remained as holdovers from the previous ...
Special Counsel – Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (four-year term of office) 93 United States Attorneys (one in each federal judicial district, except that one U.S. Attorney serves for both the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands; four-year terms of office) [6]