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30 Jan 2017, 6:54 pm
Boente, United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney general until Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is confirmed....The extraordinary legal standoff capped a tumultuous day in which... [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 2:06 pm by John E. Bies
  And in March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order specifying three additional officials to serve as acting attorney general in the event that the DOJ succession order is exhausted: the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, currently Dana J. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 2:30 pm by Jane Chong
” That process unfolds as follows: the Attorney General may (and reliably does) oppose the request for disclosure by filing an affidavit stating that the disclosure “would harm the national security of the United States,” per 50 U.S.C. [read post]
10 May 2017, 1:49 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
Boente briefly served as acting attorney general after the firing of Sally Yates. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 5:33 am by Jordan Brunner
Susan Hennessey, Jane Chong, and Chris Mirasola assured those concerned that, based on their reading of the relevant statutes, Acting Attorney General Dana Boente can, in fact, issue FISA applications. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:30 am by Josh Blackman
In December 2003, then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey appointed Patrick J. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 2:05 pm by Lawfare Editors
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 March 8, 2017: Nunes and Schiff send a letter to then-acting Attorney General Dana Boente requesting, according to the Washington Post, “copies of any applications the Justice Department submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, any orders that the court released, and any copies of warrants issued by federal judges or magistrates regarding Trump, his campaign surrogates, business associates,… [read post]