AG Merrick Garland named attorney Robert Hur, a Trump appointee, as special counsel to investigate whether President Biden improperly handled classified documents. Here's a look at his background.
Hur also spent time as principal counselor to Rod Rosenstein, then Justice's deputy attorney general in the Trump administration, to oversee all components of the department.Hur's career began after his 2001 graduation from Stanford Law School when he served as a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, according to the Justice Department.
He moved on to work with current FBI Director Christopher Wray, also a Trump appointee, who was then in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. There, he worked on counterterrorism and corporate fraud cases, along with appellate matters, according to the DOJ. Hur also served as a government investigations litigator with international law firm King & Spalding in Washington, D.C. He spent two years there before returning to the DOJ, this time as an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland, serving from 2007 to 2014.
In 2018 he was appointed by Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the chief federal prosecutor in Maryland until he resigned in February 2021. Hur most recently worked as a partner at
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