Anonymous ID: 66fae2 Dec. 2, 2020, 4:32 a.m. No.11869464   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Reminder…grounds for appointing special counsel

 

28 CFR § 600.1 - Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.

 

§ 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.

The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and -

 

(a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and

 

(b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.

 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1