User talk:JocularJellyfish/Archives/2017/November

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Speedy deletion nomination of James R. Sweeney II

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on James R. Sweeney II requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Chronology of Assistant Attorney Generals for the OLC

Hello, I wanted to seek your opinion on the infobox templates for the AAGs - is there a good reason to exclude acting AAGs from the infobox chronology? I'd say the important question the infobox answers is "who heads the OLC?" and think including the Acting AAGs makes sense. Thanks in advance for your feedback.-Ich (talk) 12:16, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Ich:, we have not included acting predecessors in the infoboxes for a while now. No cabinet secretary has them even with months-long waits so I thing the practice should be extended to lower-level officials. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk_Contribs 22:31, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@JocularJellyfish: Okay, that makes sense. Two questions then: what should be in the infoboxes for the acting AAGs? And since Bradbury was both acting AAG and Principal Deputy AAG, making him de facto head of the OLC for four years (with two failed nominations), should he perhaps be considered an exception and included in the chronology?-Ich (talk) 07:37, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Appointer or Nominator

Note I posted the following to the user indicated, but I am going to copy this to several other users for their reference. Safiel (talk) 22:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

A previous edit summary of yours (User:JoeM3120) read as such, "Federal judges are nominated by the president and condfirmed by the Senate, not appointed.". Your statement is in error from both a Constitutional and statutory point of view. There are THREE Constitutional steps. 1. Nomination, when the President sends the person's name to the Senate. 2. Confirmation (i.e. advice and consent) of the Senate is given. 3. Appointment. Once the Senate consents, the President APPOINTS the person to office by granting them a commission which is evidence of their appointment. The Senate's consent does NOT put the person in office and the President can, if he wishes, decline to appoint the person once Senate consent is given. It is the act of the President in appointing (granting the commission), that actually puts the person in office, NOT the action of Senate in giving advice and consent. Therefore, appointer is the more appropriate field and all arguments to the contrary are clearly in error. Additionally, both the Constitution and all federal statutes clearly use the word appoint. I am not going to revert at this time to avoid edit warring, but I intend to push this issue further in other venues. Safiel (talk) 22:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

November 2017

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