Trump Taps His Ex-SEC Chair Jay Clayton as US Attorney for Manhattan
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President-elect Donald Trump is tapping former regulator Jay Clayton to be US Attorney for Manhattan and two of his own criminal defense attorneys for powerful positions in the Justice Department, fleshing out his top picks to reshape American law enforcement.
Trump’s plans for the Justice Department have been for months a lightning rod and his choice of embattled lawmaker Matt Gaetz as attorney general sparked a political firestorm this week. Clayton, who led the Securities and Exchange Commission in Trump’s first administration, as well as former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche for deputy attorney general and Emil Bove as principal associate attorney general, are far less controversial choices.