were using the U.S. attorney positions for political advantage. The allegations were that some of the attorneys were targeted for dismissal to impede investigations...
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attorneys were asked to resign by the end of the month during the Biden administration. Felicia C. Adams, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi...
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A detailed chronology of events in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Dates that attorneys were sworn in under a presidential nomination and...
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See Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy documents for publicly released documents and hearings transcripts. The United States House Committee on the...
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States Attorneys. Selected U.S. attorneys participate in the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys. The Office of the United...
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Scott Jennings (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
the president's agenda." Jennings was involved in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy in early 2007 testifying on August 2, 2007, before the...
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Rick Renzi (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona)
would become the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. In February 2005, Charlton had been on the "retain" list of United States Attorney General Alberto...
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Harriet Miers (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
together to seek the replacement of a limited number of U.S. Attorneys, saying that limiting the number of attorneys "targeted for removal and replacement"...
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Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. McKay was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration...
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Chuck Schumer (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
investigation of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Although he was at one point criticized for being a lead investigator of the affair while...
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During the 2007 Congressional investigation of the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, it was discovered that administration officials had been using a...
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Brett Tolman (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
major (if not well-known) figure in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Tolman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brigham Young...
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David Iglesias (redirect from David C. Iglesias (attorney))
"performance-related issues." (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy). A review of the matter released by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General...
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Alberto Gonzales (redirect from US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales)
reviews of the U.S. attorneys themselves. The U.S. attorneys have two supervisors, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. "Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys"...
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James Comey (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
and Administrative Law on the U.S. attorney dismissal controversy. His testimony contradicted that of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who had...
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States Attorney for the Northern District of California. He was one of the attorneys whose name was mentioned in connection to the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys...
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Debra Wong Yang (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
"The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer" The Hill: "Yang denies departure is linked to that of other U.S. attorneys" "The...
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Michael Mukasey (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
the controversy over the dismissal of U.S. Attorneys under the previous Attorney General's tenure. However, during confirmation hearings, controversy arose...
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Kit Bond (redirect from Christopher S. "Kit" Bond)
American attorney, politician and former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in...
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Steven M. Biskupic (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
review by US Congressional and Senate investigators looking at the 2006 Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice's...
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Sheldon Whitehouse (redirect from Political positions of Sheldon Whitehouse)
the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy. Upon Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement in September 2014 of his intention to step down, some speculated...
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States Senate on October 11, 2001. He initially appeared on a list of 12 U.S. attorneys slated to be dismissed. Seven on that list were dismissed on December...
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Mark Pryor (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
Arkansas House of Representatives in 1990. He was elected the state attorney general in 1998. Pryor announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2001...
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Sara Fagen (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
(October 29, 2007). "Dubuque native found herself in the spotlight of a political controversy". Telegraph Herald. Archived from the original on September 12...
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Michael Elston (category Duke University School of Law alumni)
in the wake of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. He was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1999 by Attorney General Janet...
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Thomas B. Heffelfinger (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
with 19 other Republican-appointed former U.S. Attorneys, calling President Donald Trump "a threat to the rule of law in our country" and endorsing Joe Biden...
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Karl Rove (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
Attorney General Gonzales compelling the Department of Justice to produce all email from Rove regarding the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy,...
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that allowed Bush to win reelection. Some aspects of the election process were subject to controversy, although not to the degree seen in the 2000 presidential...
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Josh Marshall (section U.S. attorney controversy)
instrumental in exposing another national controversy — the politically motivated dismissal of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration. Marshall won...
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Tim Griffin (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
Patriot Act, interim U.S. Attorneys had a 120-day term limit, pending confirmation by the Senate of a presidential nominee. The Attorney General makes interim...
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