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Office Nominee Assumed office Left office — Attorney General. Merrick Garland [2]: March 11, 2021 (Confirmed March 10, 2021, 70–30) [RC 1] Deputy Attorney General
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be U.S. attorneys: 68 of the nominations were confirmed by the U.S. Senate, 5 are being considered by the Senate, 1 was withdrawn after Senate confirmation, and 3 others were withdrawn before Senate action.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]
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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]
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated as President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general, three people ...
From 2002 until 2005, Siskel was a lawyer for the WilmerHale law firm. [5] From 2005 until 2009, Siskel was a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago and was an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice.