<Tr> <Th> Salary </Th> <Td> Executive Schedule, level 1 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.justice.gov </Td> </Tr> <P> The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per 28 U.S.C. § 503, concerned with legal affairs, and is the chief lawyer of the United States government . In cases of the federal death penalty, the power to seek the death penalty rests with the Attorney General . </P> <P> Under Article II Sec. 2 of the Constitution the Attorney General is nominated by the President and appointed with the advice and consent of Congress . The Constitution is clear that the Attorney General may be impeached by Congress . As to whether the Attorney General may be summarily removed by the President, no provision of the Constitution grants this power . The decisional law suggests that the President has the power to remove an official engaged in purely executive functions or an official whose duties immediately affect the President's ability to fulfill his constitutional responsibilities, Bowsher v. Synar (1986), but provides little or no guidance as to whether the office of Attorney General falls within these general guidelines . </P>

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