'Biggest step back': Trump DOJ's 'white flag' on brazen power grab astounds legal analyst

The Trump administration's Justice Department quietly capitulated this week on one of its most brazen power grabs, accepting a federal court's authority to appoint a U.S. attorney in New Jersey after eight months of defiance — and one legal analyst characterized it as the most significant retreat from Trump's sweeping executive power theory to date.

The cave came after a federal judge threw a DOJ prosecutor out of his courtroom last week and ordered members of the department's makeshift...