20 Facts About Bud Cummins

Bud Cummins served as United States Attorney with five years of service from 2001 to 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Bud Cummins graduated from the University of Arkansas and eventually moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.

Bud Cummins lost roughly 52 percent to 48 percent to Democrat Vic Snyder.

Bud Cummins later served as Governor Mike Huckabee's chief legal counsel.

In 2001, shortly after becoming President of the United States, Bush nominated Cummins to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, a position that he held until 2006.

Bud Cummins's firm provides compliance services to state regulated cannabis cultivation and dispensary companies.

In 2017, Bud Cummins joined Avenue Strategies, a consulting, advocacy, public affairs and management group in Washington, DC.

In 2015, Bud Cummins re-entered the political arena when he agreed to serve as the Arkansas chairman for the presidential campaign of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

Bud Cummins served as a Trump whip at the Republican National Convention, held in Cleveland in July 2016.

In September 2016, Bud Cummins temporarily relocated to Washington, DC to serve on the Trump presidential transition team.

Bud Cummins received national attention when he was dismissed by United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales despite having received positive job reviews.

Bud Cummins was informed in June 2006 that his resignation would be desired, and as part of the transition, his replacement, Tim Griffin, had worked for Bud Cummins' office as a special assistant United States attorney since September 2006 onward.

Bud Cummins was called "one of the most distinguished lawyers in Arkansas".

Early in the congressional investigations of the firings, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified that Bud Cummins was removed for no reason except to install a former aide to Karl Rove: 37-year-old Tim Griffin, a former opposition research director for the Republican National Committee.

Bud Cummins answered a House Judiciary Committee interrogatory about the experience:.

Bud Cummins had been investigating the administration of Republican Missouri Governor Matt Blunt regarding allegations that certain individuals who worked for Blunt had violated the law in the awarding of fee offices.

On October 4,2006, Bud Cummins himself announced that the investigation had concluded and that no charges were filed against anyone.

Bud Cummins noted to the reporters that he had not vetted the Ukrainian interests who contacted him, whom he declined to name.

Bud Cummins further noted that, in his communication with Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for Manhattan, he said he could not vouch for the veracity of the Ukrainian information, but was passing it along as a matter he considered appropriate for further investigation by an appropriate federal law enforcement agency.

Bud Cummins noted that he took no further actions in this matter once Giuliani's role became public.