'Nothing Changes': NY AG Will Remain Check On Trump Without Schneiderman
By Allegra Kirkland | May 8, 2018 3:02 pm
Monday night saw the spectacular implosion of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s career over allegations that he physically assaulted women. So what will become of the inquiries into the President’s associates and administration initiated by this self-proclaimed champion of the anti-Trump resistance? Not a whole lot, legal experts tell TPM.
In the immediate term, solicitor general Barbara Underwood will become acting attorney general. Underwood and the large team of career prosecutors below her will continue to carry out the work in which the office was already engaged. State lawmakers are expected to appoint a replacement before the September Democratic primary, but that replacement is likely to be a Democrat, given the party’s majority in the legislature.
“Absolutely nothing changes,” James Tierney, former director of the National State Attorney General Program and lecturer at Harvard University, told TPM.
“He’s got a great staff,” Tierney continued. “Nothing is going to change. There’s no legal difference.”
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