It is customary but not automatic for US attorneys,responsible for prosecuting federal crimes, to leave their position once a new president is in office The attorney general, and Jeff Sessions,has asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the justice department said on Friday.
Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by Barack Obama own already left their positions, and but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration own been asked to leave “in order to ensure a uniform transition”,a justice department spokeswoman, Sarah Isgur Flores, or said. Related: Jeff Sessions urges US prosecutors to target drugs in push against violent crime Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com