华盛顿——美国总统乔·拜登提名八名新领导人担任美国全国各地的律师职位，包括监督起诉的办公室数百名被告充入1月6日国会大厦的暴动。
白宫周一宣布的提名人选正值司法部继续完善其领导团队司法部长梅里克·加兰他上周去芝加哥宣布打击枪支走私走廊的倡议。司法部的93名美国律师负责各自地区的联邦刑事诉讼，他们可能是打击暴力犯罪努力的核心。
如果得到参议院的确认，被提名者将在哥伦比亚特区、印第安纳州、马里兰州、马萨诸塞州、纽约州和华盛顿州任职。拜登政府表示，大多数都将是历史性的第一次，包括第一批黑人或女性律师领导他们的地区。
白宫表示，这八人被选中“是因为他们致力于执法、他们的专业精神、他们在这一领域的经验和资历、他们致力于追求人人平等的正义，以及他们对司法部独立性的承诺”。
这些律师代表了拜登政府提名的第一批美国律师，拜登政府仍在努力填补司法部的关键职位。白宫上周宣布，将提名一名律师管理其反垄断部门，但也撤回了民事部门负责人的提名。关键的副检察长职位还没有提名。
周一宣布的提名人中有马修·格雷夫斯(Matthew Graves)，他是哥伦比亚特区美国检察官办公室的前欺诈和公共腐败检察官，在该办公室被数百人占用的时候，他被选中管理该办公室国会大厦暴乱引发的案件。
自那以后，特朗普政府任命的在骚乱期间担任此职的迈克尔·舍温离开了司法部。这个职位一直是由钱宁·菲利普斯代理，他在奥巴马政府期间担任过同样的角色。
马萨诸塞州萨福克县的地方检察官雷切尔·罗林斯将是该州第一位担任美国律师的黑人女性。白宫表示，现任州议员艾瑞克·巴伦(Erek Barron)将成为马里兰州第一位黑人美国律师，他曾在参议院司法委员会担任检察官和拜登的政策顾问。
其他被提名者包括扎克里·迈尔斯，他是马里兰州的联邦检察官，擅长国家安全和网络事务，白宫称他将是印第安纳州南区的第一位美国黑人律师;克利福德·约翰逊，他将是第一位在印第安纳州北部地区任职近35年后领导该地区的黑人律师。
白宫表示，司法部环境律师瓦妮莎·瓦尔德夫将是第一位管理华盛顿东区美国检察官办公室的女性。尼古拉斯·布朗曾担任联邦检察官和州长总顾问，他将是第一位管理华盛顿州西部地区的黑人律师。
司法部在2月份披露寻求辞职在唐纳德·特朗普总统执政期间任命的大多数美国律师中，尽管确实留下了特拉华州最高联邦检察官魏红星，执法官员一直在那里进行调查刑事税务调查涉及拜登的儿子亨特。
美国律师为总统服务，通常由本州参议员推荐提名。例如，前联邦检察官特里尼·罗斯被提名为布法罗纽约西区的美国律师，被推荐做这项工作该州资深参议员查尔斯·舒默。
8 US attorney picks by Biden would include historic firsts
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions ofhundreds of defendantscharged inthe Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
The nominees announced by the White House on Mondaycome as the Justice Department is continuing to round out its leadership team underAttorney General Merrick Garland, who traveled to Chicago last week to announcean initiative to crack down on gun trafficking corridors. The Justice Department's 93 U.S. attorneys, who are responsible for federal criminal prosecutions in their respective districts, are likely to be central to efforts to combat violent crime.
If confirmed by the Senate, the nominees would run offices in the District of Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington state. Most would be historic firsts, including the first Black or female attorneys to lead their districts, the Biden administration said.
The eight were “chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, their experience and credentials in this field, their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all, and their commitment to the independence of the Department of Justice," the White House said.
The lawyers represent the first batch of U.S. attorney nominees advanced by the Biden White House, which is still working to fill key Justice Department posts six months into the administration. The White House last week announced that it would nominate a lawyer to run its antitrust division but also withdrew its nominee for the civil division head. No nominee has been announced for the key solicitor general role.
Among the nominees announced Monday is Matthew Graves, a former fraud and public corruption prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia who is being tapped to run that office at a time when it is consumed by hundreds ofcases arising from the Capitol riot.
The Trump administration appointee who held the job during the riot, Michael Sherwin, has sinceleft the Justice Department. The position has beenheld on an acting basis by Channing Phillips, who served in the same role during the Obama administration.
Rachael Rollins, the district attorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, would be the first Black woman to serve as U.S. attorney in that state. Erek Barron, a current state lawmaker who has served as a prosecutor and as a policy adviser to Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee, would be the first Black U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland, the White House said.
Other nominees include Zachary Myers, who specializes in national security and cyber matters as a federal prosecutor in Maryland and who the White House says would be the first Black U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Indiana; and Clifford Johnson, who would be the first Black lawyer to lead the Northern District of Indiana after spending nearly 35 years in that office.
Justice Department environmental lawyer Vanessa Waldref would be the first woman to run the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Washington, the White House said. And Nicholas Brown, who has been a federal prosecutor and general counsel to the governor, would be the first Black lawyer to run the Western District of Washington, which encompasses Seattle.
The Justice Department disclosed in February that it wasseeking the resignationof most U.S. attorneys appointed during President Donald Trump's administration, though it did leave in place David Weiss, the top federal prosecutor in Delaware, where law enforcement officials have been conductinga criminal tax investigationinvolving Biden's son, Hunter.
U.S. attorneys serve at the president’s pleasure and are routinely nominated with a recommendation from a home-state senator. For instance, Trini Ross, a former federal prosecutor who is being nominated as U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York in Buffalo,was recommended for the jobby the state's senior senator, Charles Schumer.
