Reading Room Document

Whether U.S. Attorneys Are Inferior Officers Under the Appointments Clause

United States Attorneys—Suggested Appointment Power of the Attorney General—Constitutional Law (Article II, § 2, cl. 2) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21491/download.

February 28, 1978