• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    instrumental in exposing another national controversy — the politically motivated dismissal of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration. Marshall won...
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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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    Pete Domenici (category Mayors of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
    one of the nine U.S. attorneys later fired by President Bush. The committee found "no substantial evidence" that Domenici tried to influence attorney David...
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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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  • This is a timeline of events related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It includes events described in investigations into...
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  • Paula D. Silsby (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
    Silsby's name was among those U.S. Attorneys who were considered for dismissal as part of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Interview with Paula Silsby...
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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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  • (racehorse owner), see American Horse of the Year Jeffrey C. Sullivan, see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy timeline Jeffrey Sullivan (ice hockey), played...
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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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  • Rachel Paulose (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
    interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. The incumbent U. S. Attorney, Thomas Heffelfinger, had announced his resignation effective February...
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  • Jeffrey A. Taylor (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
    Foundation of Los Angeles. Mr. Taylor's position came under heightened interest in March 2007 during the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. On March...
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    Thomas M. DiBiagio (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
    under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), DiBiagio stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure...
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    former 120-day term limit of interim United States Attorneys appointed to fill vacated offices. This in effect gave the U.S. Attorney General greater appointing...
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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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    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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    of the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy and in 2017 for the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S....
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    or Senatorial confirmation. This was an aspect of hearings in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. In March 2007, both houses voted to overturn...
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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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    of the United States' 9,313 such cases in 2006, the tenth-highest in the country and up fourfold from 2002. Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy Alberto...
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  • of George W. Bush Presidency: 2001–2009 Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2001) Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2002) Timeline of...
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    dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, as he was the Justice Department official who, on December 7, 2006, informed seven U.S. attorneys that they were...
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    districts share one attorney). Seven attorneys were dismissed on December 7, 2006. Subsequent disclosures showed that two additional attorneys, Bud Cummins and...
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    to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. McNulty's resignation took effect July 26, 2007. In January 2007, shortly after a number of U.S. attorneys were...
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  • The following is a timeline of major events before, during, and after the 2020 United States presidential election, the 59th quadrennial United States...
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    Carol Lam (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
    contracting corruption case. Lam was one of eight attorneys fired in the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Lam received her B.A. from Yale University...
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