[OrioleFan]

If Jack Smith gets ousted, Merrick Garland will just get loaner prosecutor (persecutor) Matthew Colangelo back from Alvin Bragg’s New York show trial.

[Rockingham]

The argument as to special counsel is to the effect that the appointments clause of the Constitution requires that a special counsel be Senate confirmed, either for that position or as a US Attorney or in the Department of Justice. Colangelo does not qualify.