Robert K Hur

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur in January 2023 to oversee the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland for most of the Trump administration, from April 2018 until he resigned in February 2021, where he worked on cases related to public corruption, national security, fraud and the opioid crisis, and some cases involving classified documents, according to the Justice Department. Nearly two months after Hur resigned from his post in Maryland, he joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner—until he was appointed by Garland last year. Before he became Maryland’s top federal prosecutor, Hur was the Justice Department’s principal associate deputy attorney general, reporting to Trump-era deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and he worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland and as counsel to George W. Bush-era assistant AG Christopher Wray (who now leads the FBI). Hur attended Stanford for law school and Harvard for his undergraduate degree—also studying philosophy at King’s College in Cambridge—beginning his legal career as law clerk for conservative former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and former U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski.