The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but if the elections aren’t free and fair, the protests don’t matter anymore.
We’re down to the last box, and I doubt the comfiest humans who’ve ever lived will give up all that comfort to do political violence and risk dying or spending life in prison.
We are all comfortably numb. Things have to get uncomfortable. Until then, the masses won’t do shit.