President-elect Trump has also named three of his personal lawyers for top positions at the Department of Justice, putting them in charge of the agency that carried out criminal investigations into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and his efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. Trump is nominating Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general, the Justice Department’s second most powerful position. He selected Emil Bove to serve as principal associate deputy attorney general and D. John Sauer as solicitor general.