Steven Engel Biography
Steven Engel is a lawyer from the United States. During the Trump administration, he was the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Engel, who previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration, was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and confirmed on November 7, 2017. He was succeeded by Christopher H. Schroeder, who served in the Biden Administration, on January 20, 2021.
Steven Engel Age
Engel is 48 years old as of 2022. He was born on 29 June 1974 in New Hyde Park, New York, United States.
Steven Engel Height
Engel stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.78m).
Steven Engel Family
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Steven Engel Wife
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Steven Engel Education
Engel graduated as valedictorian from Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in 1992 and from Harvard University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude. Engel was a Knox Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1996 to 1997. He received his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 2000, after which he clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, followed by a clerkship for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.
Steven Engel Salary
Engel earns an annual salary of $2 million.
Steven Engel Net Worth
Engel has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Steven Engel Career
The White House announced on January 31, 2017, that President Donald Trump intended to nominate Engel to be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war who was tortured in captivity, spoke out against Engel’s nomination. McCain cited Engel’s participation in commenting on and reviewing one of the infamous “Torture memos,” which approved six different “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Several human rights organizations expressed reservations about Engel’s nomination, citing his involvement in the July 20, 2007, memo written by Steven G. Bradbury, then-head of the OLC.
Former Attorneys General Mukasay and Gonzales, as well as other former senior executive branch officials and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York, supported the nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Engel was confirmed by a vote of 51-47, mostly along party lines, with one Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin, voting in favor.
Under the Vacancies Reform Act, Engel issued an opinion in November 2017 supporting the President’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney as Acting Director of the Consumer Finance Protection Board. Without congressional authorization, Engel approved airstrikes launched by President Trump against facilities associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons program in April 2018.
In March 2019, Engel sent a memo to Attorney General William Barr stating that the evidence presented in the Mueller report did not support the conclusion that then-President Trump obstructed justice.
Engel issued an opinion in May 2019 concluding that former White House Counsel Don McGahn was immune from compelled congressional testimony. The decision was challenged by the House Judiciary Committee, and Engel’s opinion was rejected by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was later nominated to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Joe Biden. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit overturned Jackson’s decision twice. Engel issued an OLC opinion in June 2019 in support of the Justice Department’s decision not to release Donald Trump’s tax returns.
After then-President Donald Trump’s re-election bid failed in January 2021, Trump embarked on a series of unprecedented actions to overturn the 2020 election, including a pressure campaign to ask the Justice Department to falsely claim fraud and invalidate the election results in key battleground states. Engel, along with Richard Donoghue and others, reportedly refused to carry out the scheme and threatened to resign if Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen was replaced with Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey B. Clark in an attempt to overturn the election. Engel testified at the fifth public hearing of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on June 23, 2022.
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