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Although he served as legal adviser to the Department of State in the Obama administration, in his warnings about the perils posed by the slide towards unilateral presidential powers, Harold Hongju Kou concedes that the president could have done more to curtail the Bush-era enhancement of the powers of the president.

The new charges Axel Rudakubana faces required the consent of the attorney general, the top legal adviser to the government who sits in the cabinet.

The super PAC’s Federal Election Commission paperwork was signed by May Mailman, a former Trump legal adviser and current director of the Independent Women’s Law Center, part of an umbrella organization that slaps a feminist gloss on its opposition to both abortion and transgender rights.

Per ABC, the document was put together by Trump's team with help from his close legal adviser Boris Epshteyn.

As attorney general, the chief legal adviser to the government, Braverman dealt with highly sensitive matters of state.