Obama to replace U.S. Attorneys

Politico ^ | 05/15/09 | JOSH GERSTEIN

[TBP]

President Barack Obama plans to replace a "batch" of U.S. Attorneys in the next few weeks and more prosecutors thereafter, according to Attorney General Eric Holder.

"I expect that we’ll have an announcement in the next couple of weeks with regard to our first batch of U.S attorneys," Holder said Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing which stretched out over most of the day due to breaks for members' votes. "One of the things that we didn’t want to do was to disrupt the continuity of the offices and pull people out of positions where we thought there might be a danger that that might have on the continuity--the effectiveness of the offices.But...elections matter--it is our intention to have the U.S. Attorneys that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as they can."

Holder's comments begin to resolve questions in the legal community about whether the new administration would hesitate to replace the chief prosecutors en masse because of the intense controversy that surrounded President George W. Bush's unusual mid-term replacement of nine U.S. attorneys in late 2006. In addition, legal sources said some Bush appointees were looking to burrow in, in part to avoid a grim economic climate for private-sector legal jobs.

[TBP]

From 2009 -- a reminder that removing the US attorneys is normal. Standard operating procedure.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Janet Reno fired 93 of them in 1993:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3533735/posts

[BenLurkin]

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) "Many jurisdictions are waiting desperately to see what is going to be done. As we understand it, the protocol has been that U.S. Attorneys would hand in their resignations and would give the new administration an opportunity to make new appointments, we don’t see that happening quite fast enough,"

"There is a danger with some of them being left there. So whatever you can do to move them we appreciate it," she said.

[dp0622]

Is it me or did anyone else get sick just from seeing the date of the article?

I knew it was going to be 8 years and not 4 with the state the Rs were in.

Like a horrible nightmare now.

[BenLurkin]

However, by using terms like "elections matter," Holder seems to be signaling that Obama plans to install new leadership in most offices.

[Grampa Dave]

Heck, Jeff Sessions got fired by Janet Reno and Bill Clinton, as a US Attorney, and he survived. Now, Sessions is just following a long tradition of firing the previous president's political appointees.

Thanks to: xzins for the above.

New presidents can fire any previous appointment people after they take office. Our fact free fake news mediots ignore this reality and their internet trolls post this fact free non news to try and create an issue when there is a long tradition of firing appointees of previous presidents.

[Trump20162020]

It's just more media hypocrisy/hysteria - that routine things done by many previous Presidents is suddenly controversial because Donald Trump is doing it.

Same with the travel moratorium.

[Ymani Cricket]

True. And now look at the state the Dems are in.

[Olog-hai]

The Rs were complicit. Just like how many of them want to continue the Obama dystopia even now.

[dp0622]

true

[xzins]

Exactly. I’m glad he’s finally getting rid of them. And it’s roughly the same time of year.