A well-known conservative lawyer, John Yoo, is set to assist a Justice Department investigation into former high-ranking federal officials who were involved in investigations of President Donald Trump. Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a national security specialist, will advise Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, two conservative attorneys acting as prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida.
Investigation Background
The investigation has theorized a years-long conspiracy against President Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan. Yoo, who was the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush, is a proponent of expanding authority for the executive branch and has experience on the law around presidential power.
Yoo’s addition to the investigation is likely to raise new questions about the scope of the probe, which some sources describe as a grand conspiracy stretching from the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 to the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. Yoo told CNN that he is happy to provide assistance to DiGenova and Toensing, with whom he has a long-standing relationship.
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