She's creating the opportunity to take it to SCOTUS where they will make the appointment of any future Special Counsel illegal. The intent is not to be consistent and it doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it's even better if it doesn't make sense because this erodes the judiciary's legitimacy; two birds, one stone.
Americans are in very very deep trouble but they don't seem to care. The worst part is that the rest of the world will be dragged down with them.
Why not go full data nihilist and say that every file is just a natural number expressed in binary.