Trump wants to name Rosen the new Deputy Justice Minister US President Trump wants to make Jeffrey Rosen the new Vice Minister of Justice and thus Rod Rosenstein's successor.   US President Donald Trump wants to make conservative lawyer Jeffrey Rosen the new Vice Attorney General and thus Rod Rosenstein's successor. This was announced by the White House on Tuesday (local time). Rosen is currently Deputy Minister of Transport. Rosenstein had supervised the Russian investigations by special investigator Robert Mueller. After Trump's lawyer William Barr had been confirmed by the US Senate as the new Minister of Justice last week, Rosenstein's retreat was also expected in March. Rosen is a member of the Federalist Society, an association of very conservative lawyers. The association also includes Constitutional Judges Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, newly nominated by President Donald Trump. Last September there had already been media reports that Rosenstein 2017 - in the course of the expulsion of the then FBI director James Comey - had proposed to secretly wiretap Trump and to initiate a trial for the premature dismissal of the president. Rosenstein had rejected the suggestion. Mueller and his team are investigating whether the alleged Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election involved secret agreements between Moscow and Trump's campaign camp. Trump calls the investigation a "witch hunt". It is currently unclear whether the supervision of Mueller's Russian investigations will be transferred from Rosenstein to Rosen, or whether the supervision will be taken over by Barr.  dpa/so