Trump Swaps White House Counsel Pick, Tapping David Warrington

President-elect Donald Trump said he would appoint David Warrington as White House counsel, substituting his campaign lawyer for a previously announced pick to serve as the president’s chief in-house lawyer.

Bill McGinley, who Trump announced as White House counsel just three weeks ago, will instead advise the Department of Government Efficiency — a quasi-public body to be led by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk and former campaign rival Vivek Ramaswamy.

Warrington is a partner at Dhillon Law Group, where he represented Trump on civil and constitutional cases like the effort to ban the president-elect from the ballot because ...