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Dismissed by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769. Deputy Attorney General: January 10, 2015 January 30, 2017 General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Dana Boente: January 23, 2018 May 30, 2020 [24] Attorney General: January 30, 2017
While the term 'special prosecutor' is sometimes used in historical discussions of such figures before 1983, the term 'special counsel' appears to have been frequently used as well, including, for example, in contemporary newspaper accounts [7] describing the first presidentially-appointed special counsel in 1875.
Under 28 CFR 600, [6] Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel in 2017 to investigate possible interference by the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election, including a possible criminal conspiracy between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. [7]
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said he appointed a special counsel because Trump and Biden have both indicated they intend to seek another term as president. Garland appointed Smith on Nov. 18.
Smith is also prosecuting Trump in federal court in Washington over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, but his lawyers have not made a similar challenge to the special counsel in that case.
Smith’s indictments against Trump, 78, for allegedly trying to illegally overturn election results in 2020 and harboring national security files at his Mar-a-Lago estate have already been dismissed.
Instead, he would appoint a Special Counsel, as had been done in the past. U.S. Attorneys serve as special counsel, but in May 2017 there were only three Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorneys serving at the time, the Senate having not yet confirmed the new president's nominees, and those three had remained as holdovers from the previous ...
During Trump's term, seven U.S. attorneys named were women, including acting attorneys, and one of his first 42 appointments was a woman. Seven individuals named to vacancies among the 93 positions were people of color. [1] In February 2021, the new Biden administration's DOJ asked 56 Trump-era attorneys to resign by the end of the month. [2]