The appointment comes as Biden seeks to advance his legislative agenda and faces ongoing Republican-led congressional investigations.
into the business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter, and some right-wing lawmakers have sought an impeachment investigation into the president.
A Chicago native, Siskel returned to the Midwest after leaving the Obama administration for stints in private practice as well as a two-year post as counsel for Chicago under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to the statement. As the top lawyer for the nation’s third-largest city, he sued the Trump administration in 2017 over its so-called sanctuary city policy.
Before working under Obama, he served in the U.S. Department of Justice as senior counsel to the deputy attorney general and then as associate deputy attorney general. He previously was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois and was a clerk for then-Justice John Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said.
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