{"id":3620,"date":"2026-07-16T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:10:06","slug":"petty-trump-fires-top-prosecutor-minutes-after-his-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Petty Trump Fires Top Prosecutor Minutes After His Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump fired a unanimously appointed U.S. attorney less than an hour after he was installed in a bid to keep his own unconfirmed pick as Seattle\u2019s top prosecutor. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3618\">Trump Hits Humiliating New Low in Popularity Poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president has spent his second term in office attempting to put loyalists in charge of federal prosecutors\u2019 offices nationwide, though several of them\u2014including his former personal attorney, Alina Habba, and adviser, Lindsey Halligan\u2014have been forced to step down after failing to secure enough support to survive the Senate confirmation process. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Under federal law, interim U.S. attorneys can only serve for 120 days. If the appointment expires before a presidential nominee is confirmed, the judges in a federal district have the power to name a new U.S. attorney. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A bipartisan panel of judges in the Western District of Washington unanimously chose Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran prosecutor, to take over after the term of Trump\u2019s interim U.S. attorney, Charles Neil Floyd, expired in February. <\/p>\n<p>Rogoff was sworn in at about 8 a.m. Wednesday, and then went to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office to meet with Floyd, the AP reported. While he waited in the lobby, the Trump administration emailed him to say he\u2019d been fired. <\/p>\n<p>The move was the latest example of how Trump\u2019s Department of Justice has resorted to using questionable personnel tactics to bypass the Senate and keep unconfirmed top prosecutors in their positions indefinitely, according to the AP. <\/p>\n<p>Trump named Floyd interim U.S. attorney in October but never forwarded his nomination to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>When Floyd\u2019s term expired in February, the administration simply changed his title from U.S. attorney to first assistant U.S. attorney and kept the top position empty, a maneuver whose legality was questioned by a federal appeals court in May. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, federal judges in Washington state had begun a public job search for Floyd\u2019s replacement. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3617\">Doctors Torch Pentagon Pete\u2019s \u2018Ridiculous\u2019 Testosterone Plot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the 17-member panel of judges appointed by five presidents announced its unanimous order appointing Rogoff to the position. <\/p>\n<p>He knew he might be fired immediately\u2014his tenure lasted 54 minutes in all\u2014and has retained an employment law firm to explore the possibility of suing over his removal, according to The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, one of the questions the judges asked applicants was how they would respond to being fired, since the administration had previously dismissed other court-appointed U.S. attorneys in Virginia and New York. <\/p>\n<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Rogoff\u2019s ousting in a statement on X. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistrict court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them,\u201d he wrote. Washington\u2019s judges \u201cabandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogoff told the Times that the job of U.S. attorney was to \u201ccarry out the priorities of the administration\u201d and that Trump\u2019s high-level priorities of combating illegal immigration, human trafficking, and gang activity were \u201cpretty normal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But he ripped into the administration\u2019s practice of cutting the Senate out of the confirmation process. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cMorale breaks down in each office,\u201d he said. \u201cThe ability to do the work breaks down. The ability for the work to be respected\u2014and to be credible with judges and defense attorneys and victims and defendants\u2014is hurt. So, it\u2019s just not a way to run an office, and by the way, it\u2019s also unconstitutional.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3616\">Trump\u2019s Primetime Speech Has Republicans \u2018Scared S***less\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump fired a unanimously appointed U.S. attorney less than an hour after he was installed in a bid to keep his own unconfirmed pick as Seattle\u2019s top prosecutor. 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