{"id":4203,"date":"2026-06-29T04:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:05:45","slug":"conservative-presidential-power-expert-set-to-assist-investigation-into-trump-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"Conservative presidential power expert set to assist investigation into Trump foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            John Yoo \u2014 a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer \u2014 will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theorized a yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump andis looking at several former high-ranking federal officials.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4201\">Every time a college student comes out to me, I learn more about pride<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was the head of the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush during September 11, 2001, and is most known for authoring the \u201ctorture memos\u201d used for detainees after the attacks. He is also a national security specialist with experience on the law around presidential power and a proponent of expanding authority for the executive branch.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Yoo is set to advise Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, two longtime conservative attorneys who are acting as prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida and are looking at possible cases against Trump foes. Though he hasn\u2019t started yet, Yoo will act as an intermittent consultant, or special government employee, on constitutional issues.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The addition of Yoo to the Miami-based investigation is likely to raise new questions about where DiGenova\u2019s work, in particular, may aim \u2014 with some sources describing it as a grand conspiracy stretching from the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 to the FBI search of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI have known Joe DiGenova and Vicky Toensing for more than three decades, so if they and the United States need my assistance, I\u2019m happy to provide it anytime, anywhere, for anything,\u201d Yoo told CNN on Sunday night.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4193\">Progressives look to Colorado as next test of a rising movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The new role for Yoo will put him in a similar position as appellate lawyers who served on special counsel investigations at the Justice Department over the past decade.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Those included the Robert Mueller investigation, which ultimately determined Trump in his first term couldn\u2019t be charged with obstruction of justice as he sought to shut down the investigation into his 2016 campaign, though it unearthed allegations that were seized upon by the president\u2019s political foes. It also included the office led by Jack Smith \u2014 another former special counsel to the Justice Department \u2014 who tried and failed to prosecute Trump for allegedly mishandling classified records after his first term.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Smith investigation ultimately took the question of criminal immunity for a president to the Supreme Court, in a separate now-dismissed case against Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss. The high court\u2019s opinion ultimately expanded presidential power.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            This probe would likely flip questions that plagued Trump around, now looking at the government officials who contributed to the prior investigations into him, such as former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan hasn\u2019t been charged with any crime but has been under investigation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=4181\">Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn\u2019t true<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Evan Perez contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Yoo \u2014 a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer \u2014 will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theorized a yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conservative presidential power expert set to assist investigation into Trump foes - 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