Attorney General Merrick Garland selected former Trump-appointee U.S. Attorney Robert Hur on Thursday to serve as special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s potential mishandling of classified documents.
Hur, a Department of Justice veteran whose most recent government position was as the top federal prosecutor in Maryland, previously worked for Trump Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein early in the Trump administration and, years prior, for now-FBI Director Christopher Wray at the DOJ.
Hur was appointed by former President Donald Trump to be the U.S. attorney for Maryland in 2017 and was confirmed in 2018. Maryland’s two Democratic senators, Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, welcomed Trump’s selection. Hur held the position into 2018, when his biography says he was a member of DOJ’s senior leadership team and was the principal counselor to Rosenstein, assisting the top DOJ official with overseeing all of the Justice Department, including DOJ’s national security division, the U.S. attorneys' offices, and the FBI.
Wray and Hur also teamed up to do a book review for the conservative Federalist Society’s Engage magazine in February 2007. The duo reviewed former George W. Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft’s book Never Again on his tenure as chief law enforcement officer during and after the 9/11 attacks.
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