Alberto Gonazales Resigns; SG Paul Clement to be Acting AG

According to reports, current Solicitor General Paul Clement will replace Alberto Gonzales as Acting Attorney General when Gonzales leaves his post on September 17; CNBC is also reporting here that he is a frontrunner to be nominated by President Bush as Gonzales’s official replacement.

More analysis on what this development means for both the Department of Justice and the Office of the Solicitor General will follow. In the meantime, a lengthy profile of General Clement, written in January by Tony Mauro, can be found here.