“It's illegal. The regulation provides clearly that special counsel have to come from outside the government for good reason. What's so special about a special counsel is that he doesn't have to answer to the present administration, he's independent,” Harvard University law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on “Mornings with Maria” Monday.
“But if you have somebody who serves at the pleasure of the attorney general, and obviously as the U.S. attorney serves his pleasures [as] part of the administration, that person shouldn't be serving,” he continued. “It's in clear violation of the regulation itself.”
On Friday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe investigating the alleged Biden family business dealings. Weiss had also previously led the prosecution in Hunter Biden's tax and gun charges.