The White House has quietly hired a senior attorney who worked on the Justice Department's heavily scrutinized investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, dcexaminer confirmed.
Sophia Brill, a former top lawyer for Sen. Chris Coons who went on to be senior counsel in the National Security Division in President Joe Biden's DOJ in 2021, took a role as associate counsel at the White House in April. Brill's"portfolio does not involve any matters" related to DOJ special counsel Jack Smith's Trump inquiry, and she"works on civil rights issues," White House spokesman Ian Sams told the Washington Examiner.
Smith's special counsel investigation into Trump is"wrapping up," and the DOJ may soon move toward an indictment of the former president, according to multiple reports. While Garland has the power to reject charging recommendations from his selected prosecutor, Smith's decision will be"independent," Garland said in November 2022 upon tapping Smith, who previously was a war crimes prosecutor and head of the department's public integrity unit.
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