Who is Robert Hur, the special counsel in charge of the report on Biden’s handling of classified documents?

In early 2023, the White House acknowledged that classified documents, totaling at least 20 pages, were found at President Biden’s private residence and his Washington office. These documents were voluntarily turned over to the National Archives and the Department of Justice in 2022.

The latest batch consisted of six pages discovered in Biden’s private library at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Previously, documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where Biden had offices as Vice President. In December 2022, a small number of classified documents were found in his private garage at the Wilmington residence.

While all documents were turned over to the proper authorities as soon as members of Biden’s team identified them, the news has still proven to be an embarrassment to the President. To create some distance between the investigation and President Biden’s political appointee, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Robert Hur, a former US attorney, was appointed to serve as a special counsel in an investigation into document mishandling during the Obama administration.

Hur’s report concluded that Presidnet Biden was not culpable for taking the sensitive documents. However, Democratic allies of the president and his political rivals have attacked the report, noting that Hur calls into question the mental state of the commander in chief.

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Who is Robert Hur?

Before being named special counsel in the Biden document case, Hur served as the Attorney General of Maryland from 2018 to 2021.

Born in New York City to parents of South Korean origin, Hur showed academic promise from a young age. He attended Harvard University and graduated Magna cum laude with a degree in English and American literature. He went on to study philosophy at Cambridge University before attending Standford Law School in California. In law school, he served as the editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Hur was called to public service, with his first job after law school as a clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2002, he went on to clerk for then-chief justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist.

He served as Special Assistant and Counsel to Christopher A. Wray, who was the Attorney General in 2004, before becoming the Maryland Attorney General himself. He started working in Maryland in 2007 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland and served for a term of seven years.