Reading Room Document
Historical Use of Assistant Attorneys General
The Attorney General may reassign Assistant Attorneys General from one unit to another within the Department of Justice. This has been done on at least ten occasions and does not require that the Assistant Attorney General be reconfirmed by the Senate. 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/23541/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit