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Biden's Justice Department to ask nearly all Trump-era U.S. attorneys to resign
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-s-justice-department-ask-nearly-all-trump-era-u-n1257100

The Biden administration will begin removing all Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed during the Trump administration, with two exceptions, a senior Justice Department official said.

The process, which is not uncommon, could start as early as Tuesday. They will be asked to resign.

U.S. attorneys are the top federal prosecutors of their districts and are political appointees.

In 2017, President Donald Trump abruptly ordered the resignation of 46 U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration.

When Trump ordered the resignations in 2017, a Justice Department statement at the time said the action was taken "as was the case in prior transitions."

An investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Professional Responsibility later concluded that the process used to select the U.S. attorneys for removal was "fundamentally flawed" and there was evidence that partisan political considerations were a factor in the removal of several.

In 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno demanded the resignations of all 93 U.S. attorneys in the early days of the Clinton administration.

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