General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Who should serve as AG in the next Biden term? [View all]LeftInTX
(34,313 posts)Obama nominated him twice. In 2013 (DC bench) and 2016.
And why did Garland defend abortion laws, voting rights and did what he could to stop Greg Abbott?
Don't see him on the list:
Current officeholders
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts (disputed)[note 1]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito[7]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas[7]
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch[51]
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh[52][53]
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett[11]
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray
United States Court of Appeals Judge (D.C. Cir.) Neomi Rao[54]
United States Court of Appeals Judge (9th Cir.) Lawrence VanDyke[55]
United States Court of Appeals Senior Judge (5th Cir.) Edith Brown Clement[56]
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Judge Ada E. Brown[57]
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon[58]
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican Senator of Texas[59]
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican Senator of Missouri[60]
Senator Todd Young, Republican Senator of Indiana
Florida Supreme Court Justice Meredith Sasso[61]
Former officeholders
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (who served as the original faculty advisor to the organization)[62]
United States Attorney General Edwin Meese[63]
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft[63]
United States Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler, a co-founder of the Federalist Society[5]
United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson[63]
United States Solicitor General Paul Clement[5]
President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Orrin Hatch[62]
Professor Michael W. McConnell at Stanford Law School and former United States Court of Appeals Judge (10th Cir.)[64]
U.S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham[63]
United States Ambassador to the European Union C. Boyden Gray[63]
United States Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton[63]
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff[65]
General counsel of the Office of Management and Budget and of the Department of Homeland Security Philip Perry[65]
Texas State Representative and Dallas lawyer Bill Keffer[66]
United States Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia[67]
Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division and former acting head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice Jeffrey Clark[68]
United States Court of Appeals Chief Judge (9th Cir.) Alex Kozinski[63]
United States Court of Appeals Judge (D.C. Cir.) Robert Bork[69]
United States Court of Appeals Judge (D.C. Cir.) Thomas Griffith[70]