White House Legal Adviser
| White House Counsel | |
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Pat Cipollone Legal Adviser to the White House |
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Current President of the United States : Donald Trump |
| First incumbent | Samuel Irving Rosenman |
| Current incumbent | Pat Cipollone |
| Creation of office | October 2, 1943 |
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| Deputy | Deputy White House Counsel |
The White House Counsel ( White House Counsel ) is a member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States with responsibility for all legal matters. Its authority is the Office of Counsel to the President, created in 1943 under Franklin D. Roosevelt .
Don McGahn was appointed Legal Counsel to the White House at the start of Donald Trump's presidency . On August 29, 2018, Trump announced that McGahn would be leaving the White House in the fall of 2018 . He was succeeded by Pat Cipollone on December 10, 2018 .
tasks
The White House Counsel advises the President on all legal matters affecting him and the White House .
The Office of Counsel to the President deals, for example, with the legal aspects of political issues or possible legal disputes that could arise from decisions by the President. This includes his responsibility in signing laws as well as his right of veto. Ethical or financial questions as well as conflicts of interest are also taken into account when dealing with these subject areas. The legal advisor's area of responsibility also includes appointments to government offices, pardons from the president and possible charges against the president in his official role. He also coordinates the cooperation between the White House and the Justice Department .
restrictions
If the White House Counsel is acting as legal advisor to the President, this applies only to the President's office; he does not perform the duties of his personal legal representative. For this reason, there have been differences of opinion in the past about the lawyers' obligation to maintain confidentiality regarding this relationship. This does not apply in any case to personal affairs of the President, which includes, for example, possible impeachment . In such situations, the president is usually assisted by a private lawyer.
List of Legal Advisers to the White House
For a long time the position of legal advisor was informal and therefore fluid. The exact designation kept changing between Special Counsel to the President and Counsel to the President . Sometimes there were several officials at the same time.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Donald McGahn: Snappy Legal Adviser. Der Tagesspiegel, January 19, 2017, accessed June 30, 2017 .
- ↑ spiegel.de August 29, 2018.
- ↑ Jeremy Rabkin: AT THE PRESIDENT'S SIDE: THE ROLE OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL IN CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY . Ed .: Duke University School of Law. S. 67 ( duke.edu ).
- ^ Theodore C. Sorensen Personal Papers | JFK Library. In: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Retrieved February 16, 2020 .
- ↑ OFFICE FILES OF LEE C. WHITE. (No longer available online.) In: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu. Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q MaryAnne Borrelli, Karen Hult, Nancy Kassop: Report # 2009-29: The White House Counsel's Office . Ed .: The White House Transition Project. 2008, p. 47 ( whitehousetransitionproject.org [PDF]).