Garland names special counsel to lead Trump-related probes - Danbury News Times

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ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press

Nov. 18, 2022Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 1:47 p.m.

FILE - Former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland walks into Federal District Court, Nov. 2, 2017, successful Washington. Trump's aboriginal announcement of his 3rd White House bid won't shield the erstwhile president from the transgression investigations already confronting him arsenic an mean citizen, leaving him legally and politically exposed arsenic helium seeks the 2024 Republican nomination.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a peculiar counsel connected Friday to oversee the Justice Department's probe into the beingness of classified documents astatine erstwhile President Donald Trump's Florida property arsenic good arsenic cardinal aspects of a abstracted probe involving the Jan. 6 insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

The move, which is being announced conscionable 3 days aft Trump announced his 2024 candidacy, is simply a designation of the unmistakable governmental implications of 2 investigations that impact not lone a erstwhile president but besides a existent White House hopeful.

Though the assignment installs a caller supervisor atop the probes — some of which are expected to accelerate present that the midterm elections are implicit — the peculiar counsel volition inactive study to Garland, who has eventual accidental of whether to bring charges.

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