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Should the president pick the attorney general?

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
Should the president pick the attorney general?William Barr walks through Lafayette Park before demonstrators were cleared by federal police on June 1, 2020.Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

Attorney General William Barr recently announced, late on a Friday, that Geoffrey Berman was “stepping down after two-and-a-half years of service as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New...

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