WASHINGTON – Neil MacBride, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is now first in line to serve as attorney general in the event that no one at the U.S. Justice Department is able to do so.
In an executive order signed today, President Obama switched up the line of succession at the Justice Department to add MacBride and two other U.S. attorneys. The line of succession would apply only in the most extreme of circumstances, when the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the associate attorney general and others in the DOJ leadership are unable to serve because of death or other circumstances.
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