The biggest Justice Department official yet just stepped down

Kevin Daley on February 9, 2018

Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, the number three official at the Department of Justice, resigned late Friday.

The New York Times reports that Brand is leaving federal service to take a job as a general counsel in the private sector, a far more lucrative prospect than government work.

(Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Officially, Brand’s departure is not related to the controversies that have roiled the Department at the highest levels. Still, that she would leave after just nine months in the administration suggests that conflict has destabilized the upper echelons of the Justice Department.

As the Department’s third-in-command, Brand would have been a candidate to assume supervision of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, should President Donald Trump fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Brand served in former President George W. Bush’s Justice Department before her appointment as associate AG. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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