Attorney General Palmer made a series of raids that sent more than 4,000 so-called radicals to the jails, in direct violation of their constitutional rights.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

Yet your editorial said: `` Now the Attorney General writes that no considerations ' justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ' ''.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Wilkey, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop.

In his report to the Attorney General, the hearing officer suggested that the petitioner be exempt only from combatant training and service.

Moreover, the hearing officer's report is but intradepartmental, is directed to the Attorney General and, of course, is not the recommendation of the Department.

It is not essentially different from a memorandum of an attorney in the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney General receives many, and to which he may give his approval or rejection.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.

Should Congress authorize the Attorney General to file suit to accomplish admission of a child to a school to which he is denied entrance??

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Simultaneously the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L. Hackett, a special assistant to the Attorney General, as executive director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.

Mr. Simpkins will move into the post being vacated by Thomas B. Finan, earlier named Attorney General to succeed C. Ferdinand Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship on the Maryland Court of Appeals.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

* 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American jurist and 75th United States Attorney General

), a United States Attorney or County attorney

Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

* 1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1954 )

* 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner ( later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation ).

* 1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American jurist and 65th United States Attorney General

* 1912 – Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist and 4th United States Deputy Attorney General

* 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman ; 24th United States Attorney General ; and 23rd United States Secretary of State ( d. 1883 )

Janet Wood Reno ( born July 21, 1938 ), served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.

* 1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General

Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.

Before becoming the UN Ambassador he was the Attorney General of Missouri and United States Senator from Missouri.

While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

When interviewed about it, he stated, “ I certainly believe that people who are in pain should be helped and assisted in every way possible, that the drugs should be used to mitigate their pain but I believe the law of the United States of America which requires that drugs not be used except for legitimate health purposes .” " Attorney General Ashcroft Asks Supreme Court To Ban Assisted Suicide – California Healthline.

* 1886 – Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, United States Attorney General ( d. 1968 )