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Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division) Jonathan Kanter: November 16, 2021 (Confirmed November 16, 2021, 68–29) [RC 5] — — Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division) TBA — — — Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights) Kristen Clarke: May 25, 2021 [5] (Confirmed May 25, 2021, 51–48) [RC 6] — — Assistant Attorney ...
This is a list of United States attorneys appointed by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.. As of July 11, 2024, President Biden has nominated 76 people to be U.S. attorneys: 68 of the nominations were confirmed by the U.S. Senate, 5 are being considered by the Senate, 1 was withdrawn after Senate confirmation, and 3 others were withdrawn before Senate action.
Following his election victory in 2020, U.S. president Joe Biden had 4,000 political appointments to make to the federal government. Of those 4,000 political appointments, more than 1250 require Senate confirmation. Upon taking office, Biden quickly placed more than 1,000 high-level officials into roles that did not require confirmation. [1]
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people ...
Garland is sworn in as Attorney General in March 2021. President-elect Joe Biden selected Garland for the position of United States attorney general, with news of the selection coming on January 6, 2021. [109] [110] He was formally nominated by Biden on January 20, after Biden took office. [111]
In November, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote in a post on X that, “This Senate will keep working to confirm more of President Biden’s excellent judicial nominees.”
For example, upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch left her position, so then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who had also tendered her resignation, was asked to stay on to serve as the acting attorney general until the confirmation of the new attorney general Jeff Sessions ...
Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates; Cabinet of Joe Biden, for the vetting process undergone by top-level roles including advice and consent by the Senate; Sr. Advisor to the President, the role formerly held by Karl Rove under George W. Bush, then by Valerie Jarrett/David Axelrod/etc. under Barack Obama