Posted on 03/26/2019 4:19:58 PM PDT by Revel
President Trump on Tuesday officially nominated Transportation official Jeffrey Rosen to serve as deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice upon Rod Rosenstein's departure.
Rosen currently serves as deputy secretary of Transportation, and will require Senate confirmation for his new role. He previously served in the George W. Bush administration and practiced law at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm.
Trump's choice of Rosen was first reported last month, but the president officially sent the nomination to the Senate on Tuesday.
Rosenstein was previously expected to leave his role in mid-March, but a senior DOJ official told NBC News last week that he would remain on "a little longer."
His exit could be imminent now that special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Attorney General William Barr issued a four-page summary on Sunday of Mueller's main findings, writing that the special counsel's investigation did not find that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. On the matter of alleged obstruction of justice, Mueller said he had neither exonerated Trump nor concluded that he had committed a crime, according to Barr's summary.
Rosenstein oversaw the special counsel's investigation after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, but turned over control of the probe to Barr upon his confirmation earlier this year.
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I wish the President wouldn’t choose so many bush republicans to be in his administration.
Dr. Rosen Rosen?
The records room? Do you have the Beatles’ White Album?
Goodbye and good riddance to a black hat, RR.
Sure wish he had kept Matt Whittaker for Assistant DOJ.......
I hope Rosen is a knife fighting Mossad type jew. I’ve got a feeling he is.
Meet the new Boss, hopefully
not the same as the old Boss.
But but but...That would make sense.
I wish President Trump had picked a Deputy Attorney General with a different name. Rosen is just too close to Rosenstein. Bad luck!
Sure wish he had kept Matt Whittaker for Assistant DOJ.....
Same here, I thought he would have been a good pick. But even Rosen is better then Rosenweasel....
He’s a Rosen without the weasel haha
At least they can recycle the stationery....just use blackout on the “stein”.
Jeffrey A Rosen is a former senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis
Doesn’t get more insider than that
Ask why someone would leave a $5 million per year job for a $200k government job
Same reason people spend millions on a political campaign to get a job that pays thousands?
Exactly.
Perhaps, but I just have a gut feel that we’re going to be pleasantly surprised with William Pelham Barr.
Funny how so many here are dead certain that they know more about Trump’s personnel choices than he does. Particularly regarding people he can fire at will and yet whom he chooses to keep around.
I don’t know anything about Rosen but hope that Trump had someone vet this guy. Someone has been giving Trump bad advice on some of his picks. I hope it’s not happening again in this case. The last thing DOJ needs is another swamp creature.
“I wish the President wouldn’t choose so many bush republicans to be in his administration.”
Ditto.
Going back for the last four presidential administrations are two
democrats named Obama, Clinton and two republicans named Bush.
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