President Joe Biden is closing in on the halfway point of his first term and, yet, still has not nominated anyone for the three U.S. attorney positions in Alabama.
Going back to Jimmy Carter, only President Bill Clinton took longer to nominate a top federal prosecutor in Mobile. It was not until January 1995 – two full years after taking office – that Clinton nominated J. Don Foster. The Senate confirmed him in March of that year.
At the same time, Brown told FOX10 News, it is important for presidential appointees to be in place. The nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys are the face of any presidential administration in the justice system. They carry out the directives and prosecutorial priorities of an administration and oversee the career prosecutors who enforce federal law.
There are parliamentary maneuvers available even to the minority party in the Senate to slow down confirmations. For instance, a single senator can hold up a nomination by failing to return the so-called blue slip sent by the Senate Judiciary Committee to solicit input on nominations in that senator’s state.
“President Biden has nominated , the only Democrat in Alabama’s congressional delegation. A spokesman for her office could not immediately offer an explanation for the slow pace of Biden’s appointments in Alabama. Brown said partisans ought to give deference to the president when they are out of power. He noted that he supported Mobile’s Jeff Sessions for attorney general when Donald Trump was president. The current environment, he said, makes it hard to attract quality candidates.
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