If tRUMP does fire Rosenstein, is there any person tRUMP can just move to fill his position

[bluestarone]

WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL (that's the part that has me worried) and does it take 60 senate votes to approve whomever it would be?

[scheming daemons]

1. A. It only takes 50, not 60. B. He doesn't have to fill the spot.

The next in line would be the one to fire Mueller... and that would be Solicitor General Noel Francisco... a hardcore Trumpian.


Rachel Brand leaving is a BAD thing. It means that Trump *ONLY* has to get rid of Rosenstein to kill the Mueller investigation.

[bluestarone]

3. don't know this guy

[bluestarone]

9. your thoughts, crazy to ask this BUT you think tRUMP would get support from the repubs?

I'm not quite sure they would. The country COULD blow up on them. We would hit the streets!!

[PJMcK]

17. Rachel Brand is a conservative Republican

Not too long ago, we were told that if Rod Rosenstein was fired, Msl Brand would do Trump's bidding and fire Robert Mueller.

But now, Ms. Brand is supposed to be a patriotic hero?

So, which is it?

[struggle4progress]

2. Why would we want to think this through for them?

[bluestarone]

4. i would think they know this already?

i'm sure there not listening to us?

[writerJT]

5. You think they are reading DU for ideas?

[we can do it]

6. Thank you 🧐

[Takket]

7. i believe only the AG needs senate approval, and the AG fills out his staff

i could be wrong... but i only remember the AG being voted on

[Sneederbunk]

10. Rose stein was confirmed. Dotard could appoint someone who has

already been confirmed, i.e. Scott Pruitt, Mulvaney, etc. Otherwise, Deputy AG must go through confirmation hearings.

[lunasun]

11. No brand and rosenstein were both confirmed

https://www.c-span.org/video/?424989-1/deputy-associate-attorneys-general-testify-confirmation-hearing&live

[TomSlick]

8. Brand leaving for Walmart is ominous.

If Rosenstein is fired, the next in the line of succession if Solicitor General Francisco - a real Trump loyalist.

Walmart has done Trump a solid by getting Brand out of the DoJ. Someday, Walmart will be called upon for a "service."

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[dem4decades]

12. So what happens? The FBI ignores crimes it has uncovered?

They report then to the DOJ where they are buried?

Why have an FBI at that point? Which I'm sure is the wish.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. What makes you think Trump will fire Rosenstein?

Other than that's a constant meme here on DU, along with Mueller being fired. Both have been stated every single day since last summer with zero evidence that might happen.

[bluestarone]

14. well the question was IF he does

just saying. this is a discussion forum.

[bettyellen]

16. Because there were so many reports he wanted to fire Mueller somehow...

And that’s how he’d do it. It’s not as if his administration has a normal turnover, either.

[MFM008]

15. I think someone said he could move

Anyone who has already GOT senate approval can be moved in. Like Zinke or Prewitt.
Wonderful.