Posted on 07/31/2025 6:33:39 AM PDT by Ahithophel
Pat Leahy saw it coming.
In the throes of a 2007 scandal that seems quaint by modern standards, the then-Senate Judiciary chair issued a warning to all presidents: If you repeatedly sidestep the Senate to jam political loyalists into temporary U.S. attorney posts, you are violating the law. He was particularly concerned about “double dipping” — an effort by presidents to circumvent legal time limits on unconfirmed U.S. attorneys by creatively reshuffling personnel.
“It is not designed or intended to be used repeatedly for the same vacancy,” Leahy said at the time.
Fast forward to 2025: President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi are seeking to shatter that check on presidential power, finding new ways to carry out the “double dipping” that Leahy warned against:
In Washington, D.C., after Trump’s initial pick Ed Martin failed to win Senate confirmation, Trump simply appointed a second interim prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, to a successive 120-day slot. In northern New York and Los Angeles, Bondi maneuvered to put Trump’s expiring U.S. attorney picks into “acting” roles that would give them another 210 days on the job without Senate confirmation. And in New Jersey, the Justice Department went nuclear after district court judges appointed a career prosecutor to replace Trump’s favored pick, Alina Habba, as temporary U.S. attorney — a power the courts have had since the Civil War. An aggressive effort to keep Habba in place has already disrupted a handful of criminal cases in New Jersey. With a largely compliant, Republican-led Congress, Trump has faced minimal pushback. But the campaign presages battles to come, particularly in blue states where Democratic senators still wield significant sway over who can be confirmed as permanent U.S. attorneys.
It’s the latest expression of Trump’s effort to shrug off traditional constraints on presidential power and relegate Congress
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It’s Politico, Jake.
Who the hell is Pat Leahy and why is this any of his business?
Which law?
Then stop delaying and bring Trump’s nominations up for a vote.
Pat Leahy is a retired Vermont Senator. Yep Democrat!!!
Leaky Leahy?? Shut up and go away!
Yep, they do not like being outsmarted. If you outsmart them, you must be a criminal.
They get away with it because the media carries the water for them!
Geez. I thought he died. Like they say. Only the good die young.
Stop the blue slip. It is tradition and not law.
“LEAKY LEAHY” was a Democrat Senator who spoke up out of turn and let the al Qaeda know that their phone messages were being intercepted by the various US intelligence agencies and transcribed, as there was no attempt by al Qaeda to encrypt their phone messages, and they were openly speaking in Arabic.
Suddenly, a great source of intelligence was dried up.
Pat Leahy should have been charged with treason.
Pat leakey should be reminded that if the Democrats continue to stall appointments, they leave Republicans no choice. You started this war, Senator Depends.
Every democrat, without exception, are worse for my pocket book than any Liberal Republican RINO.
No one cares what Pat thinks.
Looks like Leaky has diaper rash and it’s making him ornery
Just a guy who was third in line to the presidency.
During the obama eligibility, he actually was against him and led the Senate committee SR-511 (probably got the numbers mixed up) for defining natural born citizen. They discussed him not being vetted, as well. They called in Homeland Security Dir. Chertoff. It was agreed obama wasn’t a NBC so wasn’t eligible. He had the discussion on his website at one time. Yes, Leahy is democrat but he stood up for the Constitution. However, once the bill got to the floor of the Senate, the dems caved and ruined the country.
The Dems and the legacy press look so stupid.
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