The executive branch
Attorney General
The head of the Justice Department and the government's chief lawyer: supervises federal prosecutions, represents the United States, and advises the President on law.
In full
The office dates to the Judiciary Act of 1789 and gained a department in 1870. It sits in an unresolved tension: the Attorney General is a political appointee serving at the President's pleasure, and also the official responsible for prosecutions that must not be political. Norms about White House contact with the department exist to manage that tension and are not written into statute.
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