"Therefore, Whitaker cannot serve as acting Attorney General... Any other officer in the Justice Department who was appointed through advice and consent can serve, including the Deputy AG, the solicitor general, and the assistant AGs," said Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Only one HIEC chair was appointed through an open competitive process.
They will be appointed, through negotiations between the party whips, with the chairs elected by MPs over the next few weeks.
"It's going to be hard for him to change the bureaucratic structure, the state machine, because that is the main issue," Mr. Orsina added, referring to a system whose members have traditionally been appointed through patronage.
The G20's commitment to ensure that "the heads and senior leadership of the international financial institutions should be appointed through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process" is clearly a nod in this direction.
She added: "With the BBC's independence under real risk from this government, I believe that the chair of a new board must be appointed through a demonstrably independent process, not subject to more Tory fixes".
A US draft resolution circulating at the UN calls on the secretary general to appoint an appropriate number of trial judges and one pre-trial judge, and says qualified prosecutors should be appointed through a joint process agreed upon between the UN and the government of Sierra Leone.
The EFA report does not say whether Mr Raza's family members were appointed through the usual processes or not.
What is more, where it is necessary to appoint public officials with special powers not shared by all citizens, these officials must be appointed through periodical elections.
As part of a comprehensive reform package, we agree that the heads and senior leadership of all international institutions should be appointed through an open, transparent and merit-based process.
The following speech was made by Major Roche to the populace: Being appointed, through the favour of [our] most excellent governor, to raise a body of men for the service of his Majesty, I think it [a] most happy circumstance of my life to be the instrument of leading you to honour and renown.
