After three years as a top lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives, Kristin Shapiro has jumped to an elite Justice Department team that has played a prominent role in clashes between Democratic lawmakers and the Trump administration.

Shapiro, who joined the House general counsel’s office under Republican leadership in 2016, had remained in the office for much of this year as Democrats seized on their newfound control of the chamber to investigate and, on several occasions, sue the Trump administration. Last month, she joined the Office of Legal Counsel as an attorney-adviser, landing in a Justice Department unit that grapples with some of the executive branch’s most vexing questions of law.

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