28 U.S.C. § 503
Attorney General
The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Attorney General of the United States. The Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 37
cases (7 in the last 5 years), 1928–2025 · leading case: In re: Grand Jury Investigation, 916 F.3d 1047 (D.C. Cir. 2019).
In re: Grand Jury Investigation, 916 F.3d 1047 (D.C. Cir. 2019). “28 U.S.C. § 503 . The Attorney General must be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
United States v. Giordano, 416 U.S. 505 (1974). “[9] The Attorney General is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 28 U. S. C. § 503 , as are the nine Assistant Attorneys General provided for in 28 U.”
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024). “See 28 U. S. C. §§ 503–506. For some agencies, Congress has also granted the agency head the power to “appoint such offcers and employees .”
Jay Bauer v. Loretta Lynch, 812 F.3d 340 (4th Cir. 2016). “See 28 U.S.C. §§ 503 , 531. 3 . Rather than correctly specifying 42 U.”
Fortunato Amador Duenas v. Merrick Garland, 78 F.4th 1069 (9th Cir. 2023). “1 (a)(1), who is in turn appointed by the President, 28 U.S.C. § 503 . And nothing restricts the Attorney General’s ability to remove these officials.”
United States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141 (D. Mass. 1999). “See 28 U.S.C. §§ 503 , 531-33. However, as Levi testified in 1975, even recognizing that “the Bureau must have considerable autonomy,” there were “times .”
Potter v. People, 56 V.I. 779 (2012). “28 U.S.C. § 503 . There is not even a requirement that the justices of the United States Supreme Court — who routinely remand cases for retrial —■ be lawyers.”
Williams v. James, 34 F. Supp. 61 (W.D. La. 1940). “We are confronted with a number of decisions from courts of first instance, even since the adoption of Rule 4 (f), which hold to the contrary.”
Ponce De Leon, 21 I. & N. Dec. 154 (BIA 1996). “§ 1103 (1994); 28 U.S.C. §§ 503 , 509, 510 (1994); Matter of Anselmo, 20 I&N Dec.”
Kramer v. Bd. of Educ. of Baltimore Cnty., 788 F. Supp. 2d 421 (D. Md. 2011). “The Court assumes Defendant meant to say that the limitations period was triggered or commenced to run from the receipt of this notice.”
United States v. Richard Michael King, AKA Richard Hansen, 478 F.2d 494 (9th Cir. 1973). “28 U.S.C. § 503 provides: “The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Attorney General of the United States.”
United States v. Hasarafally, 529 F.3d 125 (2d Cir. 2008). “The government responds to defendant’s motion by stressing that while the Attorney General has supervisory power over all litigation to which the United States is a party, see 28 U.S.C. §§ 503 , 509, it is in *127 fact the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New…”
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