An assistant United States attorney ( AUSA ) is an official career civil service position in the U.S. Department of Justice composed of lawyers working under the U.S. attorney of each U.S. federal judicial district. They represent the federal government of the United States in civil and ap...
Kristen Clarke is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. In this role, she leads the Justice Department’s broad federal civil rights enforcement efforts and works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all who live in America. Assistant Attorney General Clarke is a lifelong civil rights lawyer who has spent her entire career in public service. Assistant Attorney General Clarke began her career as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Divisio...
Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) are headed by an assistant attorney general . The president of the United States appoints individuals to...
Former DOJ Assistant Attorney General and Latham & Watkins partner Makan Delrahim joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Google's antitrust lawsuit, what the ruling means for Google and other big tech compa...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Randall Eliason, former assistant U.S. attorney of D.C. who now teaches white collar criminal law, about his perception of Trump's hush money trial.
An Assistant U.S. Attorney pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally steering contracts to her spouse, in violation of the federal criminal conflict of interest statute.
United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal criminal prosecutor in their judicial district an...
Weiss was appointed by President Trump to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware and was sworn in on February 22, 2018. USA Weiss previously served as the First Assistant United States Attorney (2007-2009; 2012-2018) and both the Acting and Interim United States Attorney for the District of Delaware (2009 to 2011). Mr. Weiss began his legal career in 1984 as a law clerk to Justice Andrew D. Christie of the Delaware Supreme Court. After completing his clerkship, Mr. Weis...
Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSA)have the responsibility and ability to effect positive change in Massachusetts and across the United States, whether through the prosecution of a drug dealer who terrorizes a local community, a civil suit against a company for failing to comply with the laws protecting disabled Americans, or the prosecution of a major pharmaceutical company for cheating in the sale of drugs and devices. Many lawyers look back on their days as an AUSA as among the most satisfying of...
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Phillip Halpern, a former assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego, about his resignation from the Justice Department and what he sees as the politicization of the DOJ.