Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour

a month ago by Tony Bark to c/politics

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.

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Corporal_Punishment 10 points a month ago

Another step towards becoming an authoritarian dictatorship and still Americans do nothing.

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WhoIzDisIz 44 points a month ago

What should they realistically be doing?

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BigLime 19 points a month ago

Rioting

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CorrectAlias 10 points a month ago

And when CBP, the national guard, and police show up and shoot everyone when Trump declares martial law (you know, exactly what Trump wants before the midterms)? What then? I'm taking notes.

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Brainsploosh 7 points a month ago

The point is to show up in large enough numbers that it doesn't matter.

Revolts aren't without risk, and typically bloody.

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Zexks 3 points a month ago

You surround them and take their shit as soon as they show up. Yes some people are going to get hurt, but thats already happening anyways isnt it. Revolution does not come quietly

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hanrahan 2 points a month ago

see the Maidan Uprising, no need to take notes, ask Ukrainian's.

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agamemnonymous 7 points a month ago

Why? To get shot by the police? How long ago was BLM?

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WizardofFrobozz 1 point a month ago

You absolute goddamn coward.

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edible_funk 0 points a month ago

You're right, we should just lie back and take it like we've been.

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