Stanley Woodward, Lawyer for Many in Trump’s Orbit, Is Picked for Justice Dept. Post
The Trump administration said on Wednesday that the president chose Stanley Woodward Junior, who defended many major figures in his orbit, in the third place in the Ministry of Justice.
Since January, Mr. Woodward has worked as a White House lawyer, a reflection of the confidence he developed in President Trump’s internal circle during a loud period in 2022 and 2023 when Mr. Trump faced many criminal investigations and trials. He ascended to the lead, which represents Mr. Trump’s personal assistant in investigating his dealings with classified documents after leaving his post.
If the Senate confirmed that he is a co -attorney, Mr. Woodward will oversee a number of important parts of the administration, including civil litigation, civil rights, combating monopoly, taxes and environmental work. Historically, the assistant public prosecutor also plays a major role in formulating management policy and coordination with the White House. He will also become the chief employee in the administration to supervise the lawsuits that involve the Freedom of Information Law.
Mr. Woodward will join a department controlled by senior officials who previously worked as lawyers for Mr. Trump, including Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi; Deputy Public Prosecutor, Todd Blanche; And the deputy prosecutor of the main assistant, Emile Pova. De John Sawr, who represented Mr. Trump before the Supreme Court, is about to become the public prosecutor if the Senate is confirmed on Thursday.
Mr. Woodward also represented senior assistants of the president who were investigated, as well as the persons accused in relation to the January 6 attack on Congress.
But in achieving classified documents, Mr. Woodward proved his value to the president. In the representation of Assistant Mr. Trump and Walt Nota, Mr. Woodward often played an important role in developing and implementing the defense strategy. Mr. NAUTA started working first as a servant of Mr. Trump at the White House and stayed with him as a private employee when the president left his post.
Prosecutors came to look at Mr. Nota, a decisive figure in understanding how approximately 300 secret documents ended with dozens of boxes in Mar Lago, Mr. Trump in Florida.
Initially, the investigators tried to persuade Mr. Nota to testify against his boss. This effort failed, and the prosecutors accused Mr. Trump of violating a section of the espionage law. Mr. Nota was accused of his side of conspiring to block the investigation.
As a lawyer for Mr. Nota, Mr. Woodward proved that he was a confusing opponent of the prosecutors, who at some point suggested that he had moral conflicts by representing other witnesses in the case that might force him to stop representing Mr. Nota.
Mr. Woodward remained, and in the end the charges that ended were, thanks to the judge’s suspicions of the private lawyer appointed to deal with the case, and the presidential elections that brought Mr. Trump back to office.
In recent years, Mr. Woodward has made a lot of legal work related to Trump. He was often pushed by the President’s Political Action Committee to represent witnesses, including in the case of documents and other federal criminal case against Mr. Trump from January 6.
Among these clients are Cash Patel, who is now the director of the FBI for Mr. Trump.
The Senate is also preparing to vote on Harmet Delon’s nomination to lead the Civil Rights Department at the Ministry of Justice.
