White House Counsel
The legal advisor to the White House ( White House Counsel ) is a member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States with responsibility for all legal matters. His authority is the 1943 under Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Counsel to the President.
Tasks
The White House Counsel is the task of the President to advise on all legal matters relating to this and the White House. Current incumbent is Kathryn Ruemmler, who was appointed as successor to the retiring Robert Bauer of President Barack Obama in June 2011.
The Office of Counsel to the President, for example, deals with the legal aspects of political topics or possible legal divisions that could arise from decisions of the president. This includes the responsibility when signing laws as well as his veto. Also, ethical or financial issues and conflicts of interest are taken into account in dealing with these issues. In the domain of the Legal Adviser also vocations fall in government offices, pardons by the President as well as possible charges against the President in his official role. It is also his job to coordinate the cooperation between the White House and the Justice Department.
Limitations
If the White House Counsel is acting as legal advisor to the president, this is true only of the latter office; he does not perform the tasks whose personal legal representative. For this reason it was in the past disagreements over as lawyers regarding this relationship. This is paid in any case to personal matters of the President, among which, for example, falls a possible impeachment. In such situations, the President usually is a private attorney to the side.