Pattern of firing court-appointed U.S. attorneys

Date

Dec 1, 2025

Kind

Prosecutor

Legal outcome

Litigation pending

Source

newjerseymonitor.com ↗

Agency or court

Multiple districts

What happened

District courts in several states exercised their statutory authority to appoint a U.S. attorney to fill a vacancy, and the president fired the court's appointee shortly after — a repeating pattern across New Jersey, Virginia and Nevada.

Publisher

New Jersey Monitor

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