Hur spent much of his legal career serving in multiple positions in the Department of Justice. He is also the former U.S. attorney in Maryland, appointed by then-President Donald Trump.
"His appointment underscores for the public the Department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law,"
House Republicans responded with their own inquiry saying that the DOJ appears to have handled the Trump investigation differently and they question when the department first learned of the existence of the classified documents found in Biden's belongings. On Friday, as part of their inquiry, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, along with Rep. Mike Johnson, R - LA.
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