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23 Jul 2024, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
But, of course, Smith is not the first special counsel to have been appointed by an Attorney General—special prosecutors like him go back many, many decades. [read post]
Remember this past February when the report of special counsel Robert Hur recommended against prosecuting Biden for unlawfully possessing/retaining U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2024, 9:43 am by Michael W. McConnell, Pamela S. Karlan
But then, during the argument by Michael Dreeben, who was representing the special counsel, the justices seemed to veer back to fear that any kind of prosecution of a president would inevitably be political. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 5:46 pm by Steven Calabresi
Code, which Smith relied on, neither delegates to the Attorney General the power two create inferior offices, nor does it create the office of the Special Counsel. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 6:06 am by Adam Klasfeld
Van Grack led the Justice Department’s FARA Unit and brought suspected foreign-agent cases as a senior assistant to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 5:41 am by jonathanturley
Biden is seeking to brush over that Mad Hatter anomaly: “The constitutional flaw at the center of the Special Counsel’s appointment is that Congress has not established the office of a Special Counsel. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
District Judge Aileen Cannon seemed to face the same dilemma when she asked special counsel Jack Smith why a private citizen is like a confirmed U.S. attorney. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Cannon concluded that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. [read post]
17 Jul 2024, 1:56 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Attorney or Special Counsel is almost surely at most an "inferior officer," as the Supreme Court held with respect to the Independent Counsel in 1988 in Morrison v. [read post]
17 Jul 2024, 9:46 am by Josh Blackman
[The Special Counsel is squarely on notice that the question of whether Morrison’s holding should be preserved or overruled is at issue.] [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 7:39 am by Josh Blackman
Second, does the Special Counsel hold a continuous "Officer of the United States" position? [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 4:30 am by Beatrice Yahia
  TRUMP LEGAL MATTERS Judge Aileen Cannon yesterday dismissed Trump’s federal classified documents case, citing in the 93-page motion the “unlawful appointment and funding of special counsel Jack Smith. [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 3:33 am by SHG
A special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, sought President Richard Nixon’s Oval Office tapes. [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
With the expiration of the Independent Counsel Act in 1999, attorneys general have long relied upon their inherent authority to appoint “inferior officers” to special counsel investigations. [read post]