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orangecrush

(19,587 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 08:35 AM Feb 2021

DOJ to ask Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign



(CNN)The Justice Department, as soon as Tuesday, is expected to ask US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations, a turnover expected to spare two top prosecutors in Delaware and Connecticut overseeing two sensitive Trump-era investigations, a senior Justice Department official said.

In a call Monday night, acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson asked Delaware US Attorney David Weiss to remain in office, where he is overseeing the tax probe of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son. John Durham, appointed as special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr to reinvestigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, will also continue his work, but he is expected to resign as US attorney in Connecticut, the Justice official said.
The resignation request is expected to apply to 56 Senate-confirmed US attorneys appointed by Trump.

Justice officials have scheduled a call with US attorneys around the country to discuss a transition that is expected to take weeks. The Justice official didn't say when the resignations would take effect.



https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/leftover-trump-us-attorneys/index.html



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DOJ to ask Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign (Original Post) orangecrush Feb 2021 OP
Retrumplicans need to tread carefully regarding voting against impeachment maxrandb Feb 2021 #1
I agree wholeheartedly orangecrush Feb 2021 #2

maxrandb

(15,344 posts)
1. Retrumplicans need to tread carefully regarding voting against impeachment
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 08:44 AM
Feb 2021

Does anyone really think that we aren't going to be finding all kinds of criminal behavior from Donnie Dipshit's misadminstration?

Fail to convict him, and they are going to be on the hook for everything that comes out in the future

Retrumplicans are going to spend the next few decades being asked "why they didn't convict" this POS.

It's better for them to just rip the bandage off now.

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