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Trump personally interviews US atty nominee Jessie Liu.
Don't miss the detail in @jameshohmann's Daily 202 about Trump personally interviewing US atty nominee Jessie Liu.
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The Daily 202: Asking about a pardon for himself is a quintessentially Trumpian move
By James Hohmann July 21 at 7:01 AM
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Jessie K. Liu is Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District. Here she is at a National Asian Pacific American Bar Association event in 2013. (André Chung For The Washington Post)
A NEW RED FLAG:
-- In ways big and small, the president continues to show disdain for the long-standing independence of the Justice Department and the rule of law.
CNN reported overnight that Trump personally interviewed his nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia before tapping her. There are 93 presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys, but this one is of special interest to Trump because she has jurisdiction over the capital city — where he obviously has a lot of personal interests at stake. “Jessie Liu, the current deputy general counsel for the Treasury Department who Trump tapped to be the next US attorney for the District of Columbia, disclosed in her responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she met with the President as part of her interview process,” Laura Jarrett scooped:
“According to multiple former US attorneys and several law enforcement sources … such a meeting with the President as part of the interview process would be virtually unheard of in past administrations. … Of the first seven US attorney nominees that Trump selected in June, only Liu said that she met with Trump. Other nominees described only meeting with Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in their submissions.”
Barack Obama did not meet with his picks to lead the District’s U.S. attorney's office in 2009 and 2015 before their nomination. “It's wrong, and the reason it's wrong is that it serves to undermine the rule of law,” Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, told CNN. “This goes to the independence of the Justice Department” and “any effort by any president to diminish that is problematic.” ... This is a big dang deal that should not get lost amid the even bigger stories. It raises a host of questions about what commitments Liu might or might not have made to the president and to what extent she would try to protect him once confirmed.
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James Hohmann is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post. Follow @JamesHohmann
By James Hohmann July 21 at 7:01 AM
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Jessie K. Liu is Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District. Here she is at a National Asian Pacific American Bar Association event in 2013. (André Chung For The Washington Post)
A NEW RED FLAG:
-- In ways big and small, the president continues to show disdain for the long-standing independence of the Justice Department and the rule of law.
CNN reported overnight that Trump personally interviewed his nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia before tapping her. There are 93 presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys, but this one is of special interest to Trump because she has jurisdiction over the capital city — where he obviously has a lot of personal interests at stake. “Jessie Liu, the current deputy general counsel for the Treasury Department who Trump tapped to be the next US attorney for the District of Columbia, disclosed in her responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she met with the President as part of her interview process,” Laura Jarrett scooped:
“According to multiple former US attorneys and several law enforcement sources … such a meeting with the President as part of the interview process would be virtually unheard of in past administrations. … Of the first seven US attorney nominees that Trump selected in June, only Liu said that she met with Trump. Other nominees described only meeting with Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in their submissions.”
Barack Obama did not meet with his picks to lead the District’s U.S. attorney's office in 2009 and 2015 before their nomination. “It's wrong, and the reason it's wrong is that it serves to undermine the rule of law,” Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, told CNN. “This goes to the independence of the Justice Department” and “any effort by any president to diminish that is problematic.” ... This is a big dang deal that should not get lost amid the even bigger stories. It raises a host of questions about what commitments Liu might or might not have made to the president and to what extent she would try to protect him once confirmed.
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James Hohmann is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post. Follow @JamesHohmann
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