Trump picks his personal lawyers for powerful Justice Dept. posts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : They would bring a traditional prosecutor background to the job -- as well as the experience of having Trump as their client.
53% : When he began representing Trump, Blanche started his firm, which Bove eventually joined.
53% : "Todd is an excellent leader who will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what is a broken System of Justice for far too long," Trump said in a statement.
48% : The strategy has been largely successful, with only the New York one going to trial before Trump was elected.
47% : Bove, who worked on the New York and Florida cases, will serve as acting deputy attorney general while Blanche awaits Senate confirmation, Trump said.
46% : Trump said he would nominate Todd Blanche for deputy attorney general -- the second most powerful Justice Department position -- and appoint Emil Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general.
44% : "The selection of the three lawyers shows how Trump is seeking to install people he views as loyalists in key administration posts.
43% : If confirmed, Sauer would have to decide whether to maintain the Biden administration's positions in several high-profile cases before the high court this term, including on gun restrictions and gender-affirming care for minors, among other topics.
33% : Sauer successfully represented Trump at the high court last term, winning a ruling that grants presidents broad immunity for their official acts and essentially halted Trump's election-obstruction case in D.C.
29% : His assertions seemed to persuade the 6-3 majority that sided with Trump.
26% : That means that as a result of Trump's election victory, the two federal cases and a Georgia state election interference case against Trump probably won't ever go to trial.
26% : He clashed with Trump at times during the New York trial, but won his trust with his handling of the federal cases.
21% : As Missouri's solicitor general, Sauer tried unsuccessfully to get the Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of several states challenging the 2020 election results in battleground states Trump lost.
17% : On Wednesday, Trump said he would nominate Florida congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general, choosing as the leader of the Justice Department an outspoken and controversial ally who has echoed Trump's denunciation of the agency and his vows to use it to prosecute enemies.
13% : Trump first sought legal help from Blanche in February 2023, after New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg appeared close to charging Trump for allegedly falsifying documents in connection with a 2016 hush money payment.

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