Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools, a senior career lawyer at the Justice Department and a key adviser to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, will leave the DOJ, NPR reported Tuesday, citing two unnamed people familiar with Schools’ decision.
NPR described Schools as a critical “strategic counselor and repository of institutional memory and ethics at the DOJ,” advising top players at the Justice Department and helping to oversee special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
He was hired to his current role by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in October 2016.
Two unnamed sources, respectively, told NPR that there was “no sign he was being pushed out,” and that “Schools was not leaving because of a disagreement with DOJ leadership.”
A former colleague of Schools’ at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina told Slate last year that Schools was “the most important unknown person in D.C.,” NPR noted.
"a critical ‘strategic counselor and repository of institutional memory and ethics at the DOJ,’”
Can’t have anyone like that in tRump’s (in)Justice Department!
I can’t help but hope that people like him know what Mueller and his team are about to flush down the trump sewer.
Could this July 4th be another Independence Day from the trump tyranny?
Bummer.
Wonder if survival mode kicked in at a level stronger than love of country.
Any reason he can’t be hired by Mueller?
That is precisely what i’ve been hoping all year. Unfortunately, i don’t see that happening by tomorrow. Soon, though! Count on that.