Stephen Boyd (attorney)


Stephen Elliott Boyd is an American lawyer who currently serves as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs.

Career

Boyd graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Arts and the University of Alabama School of Law with a Juris Doctor. He served as the communications director for Jeff Sessions when Sessions was serving as a U.S. Senator. Boyd was also chief of staff to Representative Martha Roby. On April 25, 2017, Boyd was nominated by President Donald Trump for the position of Assistant Attorney General. He was confirmed to this position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.

United States Assistant Attorney General

Nunes memo

Following the planned release of a classified memo by Republican staffers regarding FISA warrants during the 2016 election, also dubbed the Nunes memo, Boyd wrote a letter writing that it would be "extraordinarily reckless" to release the memo. In his letter, Boyd also asked "why the Committee would possibly seek to disclose classified and law enforcement sensitive information without first consulting with the relevant members of the intelligence community" and went on to mention that the Justice Department was "currently unaware of any wrongdoing relating to the FISA process," but that such allegations would be taken seriously, writing "we agree that any abuse of that system cannot be tolerated." President Donald Trump was reportedly furious following Boyd's letter. According to Bloomberg, President Donald Trump viewed Boyd's letter as "another example of the department undermining him and blocking GOP efforts to expose the political motives behind special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe" and "intensified Trump’s concern that his own department is undercutting him"