US Attorney Preet Bharara says "Say it to my face tough guy!"
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The numbers are consistent with what occurred under previous presidents (it's actually much less than Clinton's 93 in '93).I dont have any issues with Trump asking for their resignations, but it seems stupid to have forced such a mass exodus. You cant blame people for being a bit suspicious if his motives.
The attorney serves at the pleasure of the president. If Fuji is right and Bharara thought that Trump and/or the people around him are criminals, then he should have offered his resignation before it was requested.
What should we think of people who are suspicious? I like this line from a recent National Review article by Ian Tuttle.
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...g-normal-US-attorney-grandstands-plays-victimBut there is an ongoing effort, on the part of Trump’s reflexive critics in office and in the media, to cast his every act as something discreditable or sinister and to portray every act of opposition as a display of high principle. It does not matter that Trump was exercising constitutional power precisely as his predecessors did. It does not matter that there was no principle at stake in Bharara’s refusal to resign. Donald Trump is bad, so everything he does must be bad, and anyone who opposes Donald Trump is standing up to tyranny. This is a comforting view for stupid people.
A "comforting view for stupid people" is harsh but it makes the point. There's no need for me to elaborate.
Although they were all asked to resign, they were asked to stay on until a replacement was ready to step in.According to the L.A. Times, most of the ones shitcanned by Clinton were told "to be gone immediately":
In 1993, he was the U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh and the liaison between the outgoing George H.W. Bush administration and the incoming Clinton administration. "We had been asking them for months: 'When do you want our resignations?' " he said.
The answer came in a meeting with Webster Hubbell, the associate attorney general, in mid-March. "He said, 'I have good news and bad news. The good news is the attorney general wants you to stay until your successor is confirmed. The bad news is she wants your resignations by the end of the week,' " Corbett said.
Despite Reno's request for all of their resignations, some U.S. attorneys stayed on the job for several more months.
In Los Angeles, for example, Terree A. Bowers, a Republican, became the interim U.S. attorney in 1992, and he served through 1993, Clinton's first year in office.
In Pittsburgh, Corbett says he stayed in office until August, when a new Clinton appointee won confirmation.
In New Jersey, Michael Chertoff, a 1990 appointee of President George H.W. Bush, continued into the Clinton administration before leaving in 1994.
In western Michigan, John Smietanka, a Reagan appointee, served until the beginning of 1994. "I knew I would be resigning, but I wasn't sure of the timing. I ended up serving for one year of the Clinton administration," he said.
My understanding of the Trump (as in everything he has done to date) terminations is that it was done half-assed without foresight and little to no thought about maintaining the integrity of the office through the transition. Of course if the idea is to put an indefinite hold on pending investigations - maybe it is a brilliant although desperate move.
Link for above: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/23/nation/na-talking23
IM469, your point is what that the Clinton administration was nicer about dismissing U.S. Attorneys?
The people who keep any U.S. Attorney's Office rolling along are the Assistant United States Attorneys, AUSAs are career employees. It really doesn't matter whether the USA leaves the day of the Inauguration or a year after the Inauguration the office keeps ticking along.
The people who keep any U.S. Attorney's Office rolling along are the Assistant United States Attorneys, AUSAs are career employees. It really doesn't matter whether the USA leaves the day of the Inauguration or a year after the Inauguration the office keeps ticking along.
Its all part of Bannon's plan, can as many people as possible.IM469, your point is what that the Clinton administration was nicer about dismissing U.S. Attorneys?
Still hasn't filled 500 of 563 necessary to keep things running.
Just like the State Department is sitting around doing nothing.
Bannon wants to kill government in general, it seems.
You think getting elected president should be a get out of jail free card?The numbers are consistent with what occurred under previous presidents (it's actually much less than Clinton's 93 in '93).
The attorney serves at the pleasure of the president. If Fuji is right and Bharara thought that Trump and/or the people around him are criminals, then he should have offered his resignation before it was requested.
What should we think of people who are suspicious? I like this line from a recent National Review article by Ian Tuttle.
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...g-normal-US-attorney-grandstands-plays-victim
A "comforting view for stupid people" is harsh but it makes the point. There's no need for me to elaborate.
