I see your point.
Wiki shows this:
“On April 25, 2018, the judges of the Southern District of New York, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), unanimously appointed Berman U.S. Attorney for an indeterminate term that expires “until the vacancy is filled”[3] which may or may not include the appointment of a Presidential nominee being approved by the Senate.[4][3]”
This strikes me as a “permanent temporary” job.
Good play by play explanation of the SDNY thing, click thread reader link to see the graphics or the FR link to read without graphics. I unrolled the thread without the graphics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3857382/posts?page=294#294
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1274259174612860928.html
What a cluster. I’m pretty pissed at Trump about this, knowing how important SDNY is, why in hell did they let this happen?
“Geoffrey Berman did not become Manhattan’s chief federal prosecutor by traveling the usual course.
He was not nominated by a president or confirmed by the Senate. Because of that, the question of who actually holds the authority to remove him — as Attorney General William Barr sought to do late Friday night — is not entirely clear.
Berman was appointed as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions following a purge of federal prosecutors in the early days of the Trump administration.
When the interim term of 120 days lapsed without a formal nomination by the president, the judges in the New York district exercised their authority to make Berman’s appointment official, at least until another candidate is nominated and confirmed.
Berman is now leaning heavily on that rarely invoked provision to maintain control over the Justice Department’s most prestigious office outside of Washington, D.C.”
Even if they thought Berman was OK at the time, considering the importance of THIS office, why would anyone fail to make the appointment and thus avoid any possibility of the current sh!tstorm?