Trump to nominate former acting AG Matthew Whitaker as NATO ambassador
Source: Scripps News
Posted 23 minutes ago
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is nominating former acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker as the United States' ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Whitaker worked in the Trump administration as the acting attorney general in late 2018 and early 2019, serving as the bridge between Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr. Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general was the subject of a lawsuit.
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh sued the Trump administration claiming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and not Whitaker, should be named the acting attorney general as Whitaker had not been Senate confirmed. Rosenstein was the acting attorney general for mere hours after Sessions' resignation.
Several federal courts dropped the case and Whitaker continued serving in the role until the Senate confirmed William Barr in 2019. He also was a U.S. attorney during the Bush and Obama administrations in the southern district of Iowa.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/trump-to-nominate-former-acting-ag-matthew-whitaker-as-nato-ambassador
= new reply since forum marked as read
I can't take any more.
