Trump replaced Yates with Dana Boente, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, saying that he would
serve as attorney general until Congress acts to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Not exact matches
Underwood is the lone candidate who is not interested in running for the office, and could
serve as a caretaker
until the new term for an
attorney general begins in January.
Our
Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, was
serving on that committee
as an outspoken advocate for consumers,
until last night when he was forced off of it.
Spitzer
served as state
attorney general and later governor
until he resigned in 2008 after admitting that he paid prostitutes for sex.
Hans Bader, who
until last week
served as senior
attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, will be joining the department's Office of
General Counsel, according to an internal directory listing viewed by POLITICO.
He has also acted
as standing agent for the
Attorney General of Canada in of Temiskaming and
served as a Deputy Judge of the Small Claims Court from 1997
until he left private practice.
Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms. Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to
serve as Acting
Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons.