{"id":707442,"date":"2026-04-05T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/707442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:44:14","slug":"asu-law-professor-what-a-u-s-attorney-general-actually-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/707442\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU law professor: What a U.S. attorney general actually does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 President Donald Trump\u00a0fired Attorney General Pam Bondi\u00a0on April 2, 2026, only 14 months after\u00a0she was sworn into office, making her time in the role the\u00a0shortest in 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>While much recent attention\u00a0has focused on Trump\u2019s decision to fire Bondi, there has been less attention on what the attorney general actually does, or what happens when the attorney general gets fired.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general is the lawyer\u00a0appointed by the president\u00a0and confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Justice, known as the DOJ. Because the attorney general\u2019s expansive responsibilities place the office at the forefront of both politics and the law, the position is one of the most important in the federal executive branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 President Donald Trump\u00a0fired Attorney General Pam Bondi\u00a0on April 2, 2026, only 14 months after\u00a0she was sworn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":707443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,22076,49772,120379,1587,32328,9611,58379,294926,11335,1589,95,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-707442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-attorney-general","tag-attorneys-general","tag-az","tag-constitution","tag-department-of-justice","tag-doj","tag-jennifer-l-selin","tag-pam-bondi","tag-phoenix","tag-todd-blanche","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116354525848496199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}