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# 28 U.S.C. § 504a - Associate Attorney General

## Text

The President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Associate Attorney General.

(Added Pub. L. 95–139, § 1(a), Oct. 19, 1977, 91 Stat. 1171.)