A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in
Source: Washington Post
A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in place
By Sari Horwitz April 18 at 10:49 PM
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and use every tool they have to go after violent criminals and drug traffickers.
But the attorney general does not have a single U.S. attorney in place to lead his tough-on-crime efforts across the country. Last month, Sessions abruptly told the dozens of remaining Obama administration U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations immediately and none of them, or the 47 who had already left, have been replaced.
We really need to work hard at that, Sessions said when asked Tuesday about the vacancies as he opened a meeting with federal law enforcement officials. The 93 unfilled U.S. attorney positions are among the hundreds of critical Trump administration jobs that remain open.
Sessions is also without the heads of his top units, including the civil rights, criminal and national security divisions, as he tries to reshape the Justice Department.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-month-after-dismissing-federal-prosecutors-justice-department-does-not-have-any-us-attorneys-in-place/2017/04/18/d94c4bd0-2442-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.2c7078d26b0a
Madness!
Is this because they don't want Trump being prosecuted or because they are just lame?
On edit-- at the end of the piece, it says Clinton took several months to fill the positions after they fired the US Attys
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)Police and law enforcement is all they think you need
Focus on crime and the rest is all private interests. Gives them more
room to maneuver
FakeNoose
(32,722 posts)...but he's pretty much out the door now. So they have to do something, and quickly.
Right now Trump is using his own personal and company lawyers and that's not right either.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)that Bannon's plan left with him
They're all still anti-government zealots to give their private interests
laissez-faire total freedom to do as they like
The people Trump installed are undermining their agencies for the same goals
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)One that will play ball if they tell them not to go after certain people or companies. Thats not easy to do, but they want them filled to go after Democrats and other enemies.
atreides1
(16,091 posts)They will have to be anti-gay, anti-civil rights, anti-equal rights, anti-muslim, anti-black, etc.!
It's difficult to find people with all of those qualifications...look how long it took them to find Sessions!!!
treestar
(82,383 posts)2naSalit
(86,765 posts)he was selected by one of the ringleaders of the coup. He serves a few purposes (and don't forget his ties to Russia) by looking like an inept gomer but he is very devious and self-aggrandizingly power hungry. So now we have an AG who is running interference for the coup while appearing to be the ugly-demon-nightmare-dumb-assed cracker-from-hell. Sadly, he's not as dumb as he looks... and he is a power hungry evil zealot
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Stupid or nefarious administration?
Nitram
(22,853 posts)They all think they know more about everything than anybody else. The don't need no stinkin' expertise and experience.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)a bunch of fools.
Nitram
(22,853 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)History will note that the VERY FIRST THING the republicans did after they stole power and took office in 2017, was a botched attempt to shitcan the Ethics Office.
That speaks volumes about the "family values" of the KGOP. Make no mistake. They are who they are.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)his first job is to eliminate the police force so he can pillage at will.
onetexan
(13,056 posts)former9thward
(32,068 posts)People are being indicted and prosecuted every day across this country. It doesn't slow because no one has the official job.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Somebody has to make certain the prisons remain full.