In appointing attorney David Friedman as Washington's ambassador to Israel, he has chosen a strong supporter of expanded settlements who argues that annexation is not illegal.
Last month, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democrats introduced legislation that would require the government to appoint attorneys for children in immigration court who crossed the border alone or were victims of abuse, torture and other violence.
Proposition 66, one of two competing death penalty measures on the Nov. 8 ballot, would also limit appeals and require appointed attorneys who take noncapital appeal cases to accept death penalty cases.
In some cases, officials have authority to appoint attorneys to represent the legal rights of the fetuses, and have done so without also appointing a lawyer to the mother.
Although the Solicitor General was the lowest legal appointment, a successful one could be appointed Attorney General, and by custom, the Attorney General was allowed to become Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench if a vacancy arose.
The policy is one that was enacted by the president's appointed attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and is being implemented by the president's appointed director for the Department of Homeland Security.
Appointed attorney general in 1901 by Pres.
But Mrs. Whitman's appointed attorney general, Peter Verniero, repeatedly assured her that the complaints were unfounded.
He was appointed attorney general in 2008 but was removed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in 2009 after allegations of corruption.
In late 2010, Claudia Paz y Paz was appointed Attorney General, and has proceeded fearlessly against a variety of wrongdoers.
