Now That DOJ Is Running Fact Checks On Gun Applications

[Beastly Boy]

26. Maybe Garland shouldn't appoint a special counsel in this case.

That would be a blatant example of abuse of power.

I am appalled by the amount of shallowness I see in discussions having to do with special counsel. And it is so easy to avoid if one is inclined to discuss the subject with any degree of awareness.

Just three short paragraphs.

§ 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.

The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and—

(a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and

(b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.