More Interim Leaders Take Reins Across Trump Justice Department

The Trump administration has appointed dozens of new interim leaders throughout the Justice Department bureaucracy, including moving a federal prosecutor in Washington to head the Antitrust Division and tapping Florida’s solicitor general to run the Office of Legal Counsel.

The names of acting personnel, who will begin implementing an aggressive DOJ-focused agenda in the new administration’s early days and may end up staying on in senior roles once Senate nominees are confirmed, were distributed internally in a memo obtained by Bloomberg Law. They come after the announcements Monday of James McHenry as acting attorney general and Emil Bove as acting ...