{"id":1431007,"date":"2022-04-11T12:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431007"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:44:56","slug":"joe-biden-nominates-obamas-harvard-law-school-classmate-to-head-atf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-nominates-obamas-harvard-law-school-classmate-to-head-atf\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Nominates Obama&#039;s Harvard Law School Classmate to Head ATF"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-nominates-obamas-harvard-law-school-classmate-to-head-atf%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431007&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The White House released a fact sheet Monday noting that President Joe Biden is nominating former President Barack Obama\u2019s Harvard Law School classmate Steve Dettelbach to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).<\/p>\n<p>The White House described Dettelbach as \u201ca highly respected former U.S. Attorney and career prosecutor who spent over two decades as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, the <em>Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/administration\/3263709-biden-nominates-steve-dettelbach-for-top-guns-post\/\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Dettelbach was Obama\u2019s Harvard Law School classmate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_4725971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/08\/obama-grins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10707727\/Biden-names-new-ATF-nominee-Steve-Dettelbach-announces-ghost-gun-crackdown.html\">observed<\/a>\u00a0that Dettelbach espoused support for various gun controls during an \u201cunsuccessful\u201d bid to become attorney general of Ohio in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mail<\/em> explained that Dettelbach \u201chas called for an assault weapons ban and universal background checks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Dettelbach\u2019s unsuccessful bid for attorney general of Ohio, WOSU <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wosu.org\/news\/2018-03-02\/attorney-general-candidates-take-different-paths-on-guns-and-school-safety\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that he also opposed allowing teachers and staff to be armed for classroom defense, even in situations when those teachers and\/or staff were \u201cformer military or law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s previous nominee for the ATF, David Chipman, was also pro-gun control. Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/09\/controversies-david-chipman-atf-nomination\/\">noted<\/a> that he was a Gabby Giffords\u2019 gun control associate who supported an AR-15 ban.<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>\u00a0and the writer\/curator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:\u00a0<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House released a fact sheet Monday noting that President Joe Biden is nominating former President Barack Obama\u2019s Harvard Law School classmate Steve Dettelbach to head the Bureau of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}