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.
There are enough people protesting the treatment of Palestine now that the upcoming Prime Minister already feels the need to call out the way his predecessor treated the issue. I don't see enough protests in the US for things that affect them directly, let alone for things that affect people thousands of kilometres away. What happened to the energy behind BLM? You guys need it now more than ever.