Posted on 01/03/2018 6:47:43 PM PST by marktwain
With a deadline looming, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is using executive authority to name 17 interim U.S. attorneys in cities from coast to coast.
Seven of the prosecutors have been serving as acting U.S. attorneys since President Donald Trump axed dozens of the lead federal prosecutors in March, but there's a 300-day limit on that status. The other 10 will replace current acting prosecutors, who get bounced back to their old jobs.
Trump now has 120 days to submit nominations for the permanent positions to the Senate — or else the federal court in that district will make a temporary appointment until the White House and lawmakers from each state can agree on the selections.
A source familiar with the process said some senators have not yet signed off on the candidates Trump supports in their states, which has contributed to delays in officially nominating them.
In New York, for instance, Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand approve of the administration's choice for the Eastern District, former prosecutor Richard Donoghue, a source familiar with the process said. But they have not given a thumbs-up to its preferred candidate for the Southern District, Geoffrey Berman, who is Rudolph Giuliani's law partner, the source said.
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How about the president using executive authority to name a real AG.
The usual suspects.
Sounds like a reasoned tactic.
Must have been a commercial break during the Matlock marathon.
(80s reference: If you love Sessions so much EEE why don't you marry him?)
...are mentally retarded. What does that say about them being practically appointed for life?
Can Sessions be trusted to name Republican AG’s?
Also, I thought that the State Senator Approval, called a “pink slip”, was shelved, in order to stop the obfuscation of the Democrats holding up Trump appointees for judges and AGs.
...are mentally retarded. What does that say about them being practically appointed for life?
But they are not. They simply have goals that are evil, that they believe are good for them.
Good for him,
and I agree that AG Sessions needs to ignore the haters :)
I heard he is hooked on Murder She Wrote right now and has been binge watching the first 2 seasons.
Asshat
“Asshat”
Thank goodness you’re only calling me names. This is much preferable and less pathetic than being lectured about Session’s super sleuth, possum playing, just you wait and see, 3D chess playing scheme.
Your infatuation with Jeff Sessions is inexplicable. The guy is a no good turncoat.
And you know this how?
Sessions’ is holding the office of Attorney General hostage. He will not do the job, yet refuses to step down so someone else can
That’s a turncoat.
If Sessions is doing his job properly, we won’t know what he’s been up to until charges are brought. Time will tell.
Relevent to the Bunkerville case in Nevada, he has appointed a new one in Las Vegas effective Friday January 5th.....
A woman who graduated from the Brigham Young law school.
A Bundy Mormon or a Romney Mormon, who knows but God??????
“If Sessions is doing his job properly, we won’t know what he’s been up to until charges are brought.”
Sessions took office and immediately recused himself from anything having to do with 2016 election, which rules out everything having to do with the biggest web of scandal and treachery in our nation’s history.
People would already be in jail, but for the fact that Sessions is sitting there doing nothing but blocking the appointment of a real AG.
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