The prosecutor who originally sent the Hammonds away and filed the appeal to give them the terrorist sentences, Amanda Marshall, left her post after sexual harassment allegations against her came up.
The replacement chosen by Loretta Lynch was Billy Williams, who was reappointed in the name of President Trump (Sessions involved?) last year.
Williams fully defended the mandatory sentences claiming firefighters were endangered by the Hammonds.
I believe that Rip van Sessions has publicly praised the work of the local US prosecutors office.