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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.
Statements from Trump and the White House suggested he had been dismissed to ease the "pressure" on Trump due to the Russia investigation. [45] [46] [47] Later that month he arranged for a friend to tell the press about a memo he had written after a February 14 private meeting with the president.
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]
Mr Smith was appointed as special counsel in 2022 to oversee the two justice department cases into Trump. The president had vowed to fire him "within two seconds" of taking office, but he quit ...
Having laid out the evidence against the president-elect in exhaustive detail, much of which has been previously established, the special counsel states flatly that only Trump’s victory over ...
John Sauer, who argued the immunity dispute on Trump’s behalf before the Supreme Court, has been selected by Trump to be US solicitor general, the federal government’s top lawyer before the ...
There are three vacancies on the U.S. courts of appeals and 38 vacancies on the U.S. district courts, [2] [3] as well as eight announced vacancies that may occur before the end of Trump's term (one for the courts of appeals and seven for district courts). [Note 1] [4] Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.
Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have unleashed a legal blitz this week to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his classified documents and ...