Florida led a multi-state brief; Texas filed its own. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 appointed Smith to serve as “special counsel” for the U.S. Department of Justice. Garland also gave him “the full power and independent ...

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From his seaside Florida resort, Donald Trump is holding a casting call to fill the toughest job in Washington: attorney general.

Before he was reelected, Trump openly threatened to use — or abuse — his power by ordering federal prosecutors to pursue criminal cases against those he deems enemies. There's little in the law that would stop him.