Posted on 05/24/2025 11:28:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s early selections for U.S. attorneys have drawn strong pushback from Democratic senators who have considerable power to block them, setting up another fight over personnel picks from a president who places a premium on loyalty as he staffs his administration.
His choices for the top prosecutors in Nevada, New York and New Jersey are opposed by Democratic senators, and at stake is the Republican president’s ability to have the team he wants for positions with enormous sway over which cases and crimes are investigated and what penalties the government seeks.
The power they wield was underscored this past week when the interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey, Alina Habba, announced she was charging Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assault after a skirmish with federal officers outside an immigration detention center in Newark. McIver has denied any wrongdoing and said the charge was “purely political.”
In the Senate, which must approve a president’s nominees for U.S. attorney, at least two Democrats are prepared to invoke a decades-old custom that affords home-state senators veto power over whether a would-be federal prosecutor can be confirmed.
That battle comes as Ed Martin, Trump’s first choice to be the top prosecutor in the nation’s capital, withdrew from consideration after both Republicans and Democrats indicated they would not support the conservative activist, who has a modest legal background and expressed support for Jan. 6 rioters. The president replaced Martin with Fox News Channel host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge in New York who has been a longtime Trump defender on television.
“Martin was the extreme example,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think our antenna are flying high as we look at each...”
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And now we have Ass Press weighing in. They were strangely silent about Soros prosecutors opening the floodgates to the criminal class.
Junk news.
Do you think when Obama put Comey, Holder, Lynch into office, these weren’t loyal team players?
What Garland?
Only now would the AP run such a headline.
It’s an issue now because they don’t like Trump, his agenda, or those that would advance it.
So (((NOW))) loyalty to the leader is something that should be questioned and these folks need to be objective, fair and neutral, bla bla bla.
Was Fauci neutral and objective?
How about Blinken?
Rachel Levine?
How about Yellen?
Mayorkas? Biden is “sharp as a tack” guy.
I wish the AP and this writer would have mentioned “Loyalty-First” when Obama or Biden were in office, then I would accept his argument today. But seeing how NO ONE in the MSM had an issue with party hacks being installed when these Democrats were in office, but they sound the alarm now, I cannot take them serious.
“a decades-old custom that affords home-state senators veto power”
A custom is not a law. We used to have a lot of customs in this country that the so-called Progressive Democrats have thrown in the trash or turned upside down. Two can play that game.
Dems can’t block them without the RINOs.
So called senators who can block them are proof Trump made the right selections.
“”””His choices for the top prosecutors in Nevada, New York and New Jersey are opposed by Democratic senators,”””
Really??? SHOCKING NEWS!!!!!
Which of President Trump’s nominees declared themselves his wingman?
“Which of President Trump’s nominees declared themselves his wingman?”
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Elon Musk, which is why Musk would never survive a confirmation hearing for a Constitutionally authorized position.
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