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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.
[a] Tillerson is the only Secretary of State since at least 1945 to have been fired. [34] Thomas A. Shannon Jr. January 20, 2017 February 1, 2017 Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs) February 12, 2016 June 4, 2018 Deputy Secretary of State: February 1, 2017 May 24, 2017 John Sullivan: May 24, 2017 December 20, 2019 Became Ambassador to ...
Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2020, ruled that Smith's 2022 appointment violated the U.S. Constitution because Congress did not authorize Garland to name a special counsel ...
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.
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 ...
This is a list of United States attorneys appointed by the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. President Trump nominated 86 people to be U.S. attorneys, and 84 of them were confirmed. There are a total of 93 U.S. attorneys in the Department of Justice.
When the special counsel was appointed by Rod Rosenstein in May 2017, the special counsel took over an existing counterintelligence investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and numerous secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials. [37]