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.

  • stephen01king@piefed.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Which comment of mine have you that impression? The first one in this specific thread was simply answering your question about what I’d recommend.

    My answer was in the context of the many comment on here about the difficulty of organising a general strike in America, and so I recommended for people to first gauge the level of awareness of the people closest to them on the severity of the situation and whether they have thought about participating in a general strike.

    Only with that knowledge would you know what the problem you’re dealing with, at least within your local circle, and what method you need to raise their awareness to your level. That’s all my point was.

    • Snowies@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      That’s reasonable.

      I’m just scared and angry and fucked up and I lashed out at you because it felt good.

      I hope I had no effect on your day. Sorry.

      • stephen01king@piefed.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It’s all good. I have no reason to stay mad at someone admitting fault and apologising. I hope you guys can improve your situation so that you don’t have to feel this scared and angry so constantly. I feel both just looking in from the outside, so I can’t imagine how much worse it feels like from the inside.

        • Snowies@lemmy.zip
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          3 days ago

          You have no idea.

          I’m an Army Veteran actually, and this whole thing pisses me off so much.

          I feel like the America I was sold in my younger years is gone and it’s become so warped and twisted that it’s not even recognizable.

          But another part of me knows that a lot of what I believed was actually never true, in retrospect.

          I want to feel proud of my country again one day.