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.

  • 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.