attorney general of the United States

1. The head of the United States Department of Justice and a member of the president's cabinet . The attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government.

Example Sentences

Check out this 2019 video clip of her reducing Bill Barr, the Attorney General of the United States under then-President Donald Trump, to a puddle as he “grappled” with the meaning of the word “suggest!”

From Salon

“I can only imagine how Donald Trump’s outrageous lies and behavior would have horrified my father, Robert F. Kennedy, who proudly served as Attorney General of the United States, and honored his pledge to uphold the law and protect the country,” Kerry Kennedy will say, according to prepared remarks.

From Seattle Times

Back in the fall, Stras said that under his reading of the act, only the attorney general of the United States is ever entitled to bring suits under Section 2 to defend voting rights.

From Slate

Only the attorney general of the United States, he wrote, may initiate such lawsuits; individual citizens and advocacy groups cannot.

From Slate

The appellate court found that “only the attorney general of the United States may bring suit” to enforce the key section of the act.

From Salon