President Biden Nominates Erek L. Barron To Serves As Maryland’s U.S. Attorney

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJZ) — President Joe Biden announced 8 nominees for U.S. Attorneys crossed the state Monday, including present successful Maryland wherever helium nominated Erek L. Barron for the position. Barron would beryllium the archetypal Black U.S. Attorney successful Maryland’s history.

The nominees were chosen ” for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, their acquisition and credentials successful this field, their dedication to pursuing adjacent justness for all, and their committedness to the independency of the Department of Justice,” a property merchandise from the White House stated.

Biden is launching an effort to tackle the uptick successful weapon unit crossed the state implicit the past 18 months. He wants to enactment much cops connected the beat, enactment transgression prevention programs and crackdown connected amerciable weapon trafficking.

UPPER MARLBORO, MD – JUNE 10: Erek Barron addresses attendees of a Voter Education Forum held astatine First Baptist Church of Glenarden successful Upper Marlboro, Maryland Tuesday June 10, 2014. (Photo by J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Barron is simply a spouse astatine the instrumentality steadfast Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP and has been a subordinate of the Maryland legislature since 2015. He served arsenic Counsel and Policy Advisor for then-Senator Biden from 2007 to 2009 connected the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee connected Crime and Drugs.

Barron antecedently served arsenic a national authoritative successful the DOJ from 2006 to 2007 and a Maryland authoritative successful Prince George’s County and Baltimore City.

He received his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center successful 2007 and his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School successful 1999 and his bachelor’s from the University of Maryland astatine College Park successful 1996.

After learning of Biden’s pick, the Maryland delegation shared their enactment of his nomination.

“Maryland needs a U.S. Attorney with integrity and independence, arsenic good arsenic the spot and acquisition to tackle the unacceptably precocious level of convulsive transgression successful Baltimore City. With Senator Van Hollen, I was arrogant to urge Erek Barron for this presumption arsenic a guardian of the civilian rights and civilian liberties of each Marylanders,” said Senator Cardin. “Erek has demonstrated a passionateness for nationalist work passim his full vocation and helium volition bring to this presumption a unsocial acceptable of nonrecreational experiences and skills that volition service Marylanders well. His way grounds of enacting reforms to the transgression justness strategy and serving arsenic a national and authorities authoritative – including prosecuting cases successful Baltimore City and Prince George’s County – marque him well-positioned to instrumentality connected this pb national instrumentality enforcement relation for our state.”

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“Our authorities indispensable person a U.S. lawyer who is fiercely committed to delivering adjacent justness nether the instrumentality to each Marylander. Erek Barron’s tireless efforts to physique a better, fairer justness strategy successful Maryland, his years of acquisition serving our constituents, and his heavy knowing of the challenges we look suffice him arsenic an outstanding information for this position. Together with Senator Cardin, I was arrogant to urge Erek to service successful this role, and I cognize helium volition enactment with america to amended nationalist safety, code weapon violence, uphold the City of Baltimore’s consent decree, and fortify our justness system. We’ll beryllium moving to corroborate his historical information successful the Senate astatine once,” said Senator Van Hollen.