Rod Rosenstein

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Rod Rosenstein

Rod Jay Rosenstein (born January 13, 1965 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American lawyer . From 2017 to 2019, he served as the United States Deputy Attorney General and was the deputy head of the US Department of Justice . He was in charge of the special investigation into influencing the 2016 election campaign in the United States until Sessions was released in November 2018 . Prior to his appointment he was United States Attorney of the State of Maryland .

Family and education

The son of small business owner Robert Rosenstein and his wife Geraldine, an accountant who served as president of the local school board, grew up with a sister in Lower Moreland , Philadelphia. Rosenstein first studied economics at the Wharton School , graduated with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude and moved to Harvard Law School , where he co-edited the Harvard Law Review and received the Juris Doctor in 1989 . During his studies he became a member of the honorary society Phi Beta Kappa .

Rosenstein has two daughters with his wife, Lisa Barsoomian, a former Assistant United States Attorney who works for the National Institutes of Health .

Judicial career

After his studies he was an employee ("clerk") of the federal judge Douglas H. Ginsburg and then worked for the US Department of Justice from 1990, first under the then Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller corruption cases and then in various areas, including Philip Heymann and two Years for special investigator Kenneth Starr in the wake of the Whitewater affair . In 1997, the then United States Attorney for Maryland Lynne A. Battaglia appointed him as her assistant, where he worked, among other things, on credit card fraud. In 2001 he returned to the Justice Department as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, where he worked in the Tax Crime Division. Rosenstein was named United States Attorney for Maryland on July 12, 2005 after his nomination was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate . There he was responsible for the cities of the middle Atlantic coast such as Washington, DC and Baltimore and in particular for the prosecution of drug deals. He was nominated in 2007 by then US President George W. Bush as a candidate for the United States Court of Appeals in the fourth judicial district , but failed due to the resistance of the then US Senators for Maryland, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin , who denied his lack of origin complained from the state.

Deputy Minister of Justice

The then- elected US President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein for the post of Deputy Justice Minister on January 13, 2017. In the Senate hearing, he described his political affiliation as irrelevant to his work. On April 25, 2017, the US Senate confirmed Rosenstein's appointment with 94 to 6 votes. He was the longest-serving US attorney at the time. Rosenstein, who remained in office under Barack Obama as one of only three US attorneys appointed by President George W. Bush, is characterized in his work as fair, professional and detailed.

The dismissal of the FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017-founded US President Donald Trump in the letter of dismissal with the advice of the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein. Enclosed with the letter was Rosenstein's review of Comeys, which Trump had commissioned the day before and in which Rosenstein reprimanded Comey's handling of Hillary Clinton 's email affair . On May 17, 2017, on behalf of the public interest , Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special investigator to investigate whether the Russian influence in the US presidential election campaign in 2016 resulted in collusion with Trump's election campaign (see also allegations of collusion with Trump Russian authorities ). Justice Minister Sessions had given his deputy the supervision of these investigations after it became known that Sessions had spoken several times with the Russian ambassador to the USA, Sergei Kisljak , as a Trump supporter . Rosenstein approved the search warrant against President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen , carried out on April 8, 2018 in connection with the Stormy Daniels affair . It was only in August 2020 that it became known that Rosenstein was secretly restricting Mueller's investigative mandate without informing Andrew McCabe .

After Rosenstein refused to provide Congress with millions of documents from the ongoing Russia investigation, members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus prepared impeachment proceedings against Rosenstein in July 2018 , which are considered politically motivated and with little prospect of a majority in the House of Representatives was granted. Nevertheless, the proceedings were initiated on July 25, 2018 under the leadership of Freedom Caucus MPs Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows . During the Whip of the Republicans Steve Scalise , signaled his support, rejected the Speaker of the House , Paul Ryan , the procedure from. President Trump, who had considered firing Rosenstein several times, developed a close working relationship with Rosenstein over the course of 2018, which he himself described as "fantastic" in August 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal . Accordingly, Rosenstein visited the White House up to three times a week to talk about topics such as immigration to the United States .

The New York Times reported on September 21, 2018 that shortly after Comey was fired in the spring of 2017, Rosenstein spoke to several officials about secretly wiretapping President Trump and applying the 25th Amendment , which provides for the impeachment of the president in the event of incapacity. Rosenstein denied this representation.

The day after the mid-term election in November 2018 , Justice Secretary Sessions resigned at Trump's request and was replaced on an interim basis by his previous chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker, who had previously been critical of the scope and limitations of Mueller's investigation, also oversaw the FBI's special investigation into Russian interference. At the end of November 2018, Trump retweeted a picture that showed Rosenstein behind bars and said that he should be in custody because he had appointed special investigator Mueller.

On April 29, 2019, Rosenstein submitted his resignation from the office of United States Deputy Attorney General on May 11, 2019.

Career after civil service

Since January 2020 Rosenstein partner of the law firm King & Spalding in Washington, DC He is the team of the law firm for special affairs and government investigations on.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aubrey Whelan: The Montco-reared deputy AG who recommended firing Comey. In: The Philadelphia Inquirer , May 10, 2017 (English); Written statement by Rosenstein for the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination as Deputy Minister of Justice, March 7, 2017 Rosenstein Testimony.pdf (PDF).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.judiciary.senate.gov  
  2. ^ A b Rod J. Rosenstein, District of Maryland. In: Justice.gov (English).
  3. ^ A b Former US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Joins King & Spalding as a Partner in Washington, DC . King & Spalding, January 8, 2020
  4. ↑ a b Written statement by Rosenstein for the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate on the nomination as Deputy Minister of Justice, March 7, 2017 Rosenstein Testimony.pdf (PDF).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.judiciary.senate.gov  
  5. ^ Judges, and Justice, Delayed. In: The Washington Post , April 15, 2008.
  6. ↑ John Fritze: Rosenstein poised for confirmation as deputy attorney general. In: The Baltimore Sun , April 24, 2017 (English).
  7. ^ Ruben Castaneda: Profile of Rod Rosenstein, US attorney for Maryland. In: The Washington Post , October 9, 2011.
  8. ↑ Thorsten Denkler: Why Trump fired FBI boss Comey. In: Sueddeutsche.de , May 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Veit Medick : Danger from the second row. In: Spiegel Online , May 12, 2017; Full text of the written review (memo) at The Atlantic .
  10. ↑ Rebecca R. Ruiz, Mark Landler: Robert Mueller, Former FBI Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation. In: nytimes.com , May 17, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Michael D. Shear, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman: Rod Rosenstein Personally Approved FBI Raid on Trump Lawyer, Officials Say. In: The New York Times , April 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-russia-justice-department.html#
  13. ^ Rachael Bade, Kyle Cheney: House conservatives prep push to impeach Rosenstein. In: Politico.com , July 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ Republicans launch bid to impeach US deputy attorney general. In: BBC.com , July 26, 2018.
  15. ↑ Veronica Stracqualursi, Phil Mattingly, Manu Raju: Paul Ryan does not support impeachment resolution against Rosenstein. In: CNN.com , July 26, 2018; Molly E. Reynolds: Reading Between the Lines on House Efforts to Impeach Rod Rosenstein. In: Lawfare , July 24, 2018.
  16. ↑ Michael C. Bender, Sadie Gurman: 'It's Fantastic!' Trump Warms to Rosenstein. In: Wall Street Journal , August 8, 2018.
  17. ^ Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt: Rosenstein Suggested He Secretly Record Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment. In: The New York Times , September 21, 2018.
  18. ↑ Olivia Beavers: DOJ: Acting AG to take over oversight of Russia probe. In: The Hill , November 7, 2018.
  19. ↑ Felicia Sonmez: Trump on Rod Rosenstein: 'He should have never picked a special counsel'. In: The Washington Post , November 28, 2018.
  20. ↑ spiegel.de April 29, 2019: Rod Rosenstein submits his resignation (with full text of the resignation letter)
personal data
SURNAME Rosenstein, Rod
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenstein, Rod Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania