When the Justice Department concluded on Inauguration Day 2017 Jared Kushner could serve in his father-in-law's administration without violating anti-nepotism laws, legal experts scratched their heads at the ruling. Monday's newly released memos -- first reported by Politico , which filed a Freedom of Information Act request -- illustrate why the reversal was so stark. A similar finding came from Edwin Kneedler in 1977, who concluded that President Jimmy Carter could not appoint his son to an unpaid position on the White House staff. "We believed that we had the better argument on this," Kushner's lawyer Jamie Gorelick said in a statement at the time. "The Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department -- in an opinion by a highly regarded career Deputy Assistant Attorney General -- adopted a position consistent with our own."

Source: CNN October 04, 2017 00:11 UTC