Posted on 02/09/2018 2:33:21 PM PST by Bigtigermike
WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.
Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein.
Such a move could have put her in charge of the special counsel and, by extension, left her in the cross hairs of the president.
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U of M is VERY Liberal.
1. U.S. Attorney General
2. Deputy Attorney General
3. Associate Attorney General (now vacant)
4. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (currently ineligible, since she's only in an acting role right now)
5. United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (Trump appointee John Lausch Jr., sworn in November 2017)
6. United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (Timothy Garrison was appointed in January 2018; I'm not sure if he is an interim appointee or if he's been confirmed by the U.S. Senate)
boop is correct when he said,
This woman is up to her ears in corruption.
Mark it.
Another one bites the dust!
“Let’s hope Rosy Rosenstein is next. “
I was going to say when are number 1 and 2 losers going to step down.
Number 1 is staying just so you have something to bitch about.
Whether she was a Trump appointee or not, she has to be swamp, based the reason she gave for resigning.
Allowing herself to be quoted as saying the DOJ has been under attack from President Trump reveals a lot about where her loyalties are (and are not).
When a POTUS expresses disapproval of or takes disciplinary action toward specific elements within a department under his administration, it is not called “attacking”, it is called “presiding”.
Characterizing it as an attack on the agency is a lie, and it’s a lie only someone hostile to the President’s agenda would tell.
They had to take a swipe at President Trump in the first sentence.
There were no quotes from Rachel Brand in the article. That was 100% the New York Times’ spin. The two anonymous sources mentioned in the article only confirmed that she was leaving.
Another Trump swing and miss.
Someone like me that decided they don’t want the job after trying it out for a while?
>Number 1 is staying just so you have something to bitch about
Finally he serves a purpose.
If she has only been in the job 9 months, did Trump hire her? Sessions? Who? Thanks.
What was the reason she gave for resigning? Where do you see any such quote from her about the president attacking the DOJ?
I think I heard she is going to Walmart and will make millions a year. Government pays crap if you have to compete with the civilian sector.
From Gateway Pundit:
“Because Tracy Doherty-McCormick is only the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the official most likely to replace Brand is U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert Higdon.
Robert J. Higdon, Jr. was nominated to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina by President Donald Trump on August 2, 2017. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 2017. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Higdon is the top-ranking federal law enforcement official in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which includes the 44 eastern most counties of North Carolina. He oversees a staff of 108 employees, including 51 attorneys and 57 non-attorney support personnel. The office also partners with some 20 Special Assistant United States Attorneys from branches of the United States military, local District Attorneys offices and federal and state regulatory agencies.
In 2012, Higdon was the lead prosecutor in the campaign finance fraud case involving former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.”
Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas noted the shakeup is a, “very big deal.”
“It’s Brand (or her successor) who’s first in line to take over supervision of Mueller’s investigation if Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is fired.”
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