CFR are regulations passed by the agencies, not laws passed by Congress
It sounds like Mueller is spending a heckuva lot of taxpayer money. Is that part legal? Congress has the power to appropriate funds.
Isn’t it amazing that so many people think the Code of Federal Regulations are “laws”?
The people in the government like to say that too.
Except when you pin them down and say, which part of the US Code did this come from?
Which of course they can’t answer, since it didn’t. It was a regulation written by a bureaucrat.
As for the DoJ giving itself the power to appoint surrogate US Attorneys, I think that’s a real issue. Where’s the authority for that?
Considering what’s coming out about Mueller, seems obvious that such “counsel” should be subject to a vote.
The enabling legislation is the Special Counsel Act of 1999.
But perhaps the question is specifically about the power to grant immunity, which would probably be an “inherent power” of a Special Counsel.