Matthew Whitaker, whose brief tenure as acting U.S. attorney general was marred ...
WASHINGTON - Matthew Whitaker, whose brief tenure as acting U.S. attorney general was marred by accusations that he might try to interfere in a probe of President Donald Trump’s campaign, left his Justice Department job over the weekend, a department spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.
In mid-February, Attorney General William Barr was sworn in and Whitaker stepped down from the top post to become a senior counselor in the office of the associate attorney general. Whitaker first joined the Justice Department as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff in the fall of 2017. Trump hand-picked him as acting attorney general in November after the president fired Sessions.
The Justice Department also separately faced a backlash in the form of multiple lawsuits alleging Whitaker’s appointment violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal law governing succession at the department.
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