AG Pick May Face Delay

Olson Seen as Frontrunner; Hatch Interested

• By John Stanton and Erin P. Billings
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 10, 2007, Midnight

As the White House appears to be focused on former Solicitor General Ted Olson as the next attorney general, Senate Democrats are expected to delay President Bush’s nominee in the hopes of forcing the administration to produce thousands of pages of documents on a variety of issues, including the firing of nine U.S. attorneys last year.