Donald Trump has his sights set on knocking the Deep State down a peg.
He’s getting a boost on smashing the unelected bureaucracy.
And Lauren Boebert handed Donald Trump one plan to drop the hammer on the Deep State.
House Republicans urge Donald Trump to fire all of Biden’s federal prosecutors
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t going to let the Justice Department undermine him like it did in his first term.
A group of 30 House Republicans, including Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO), encouraged him to fire all 93 U.S. Attorneys appointed by President Joe Biden with interim replacements.
U.S. Attorneys are confirmed by the Senate for four-year terms and are the top prosecutors in the 94 federal judicial districts.
Typically, during the change in Presidential administrations, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney takes over until the new President can appoint a replacement.
“The First Assistant is always an ideological protégé of the U.S. Attorney, and thus the transition does not typically result in a change of judicial policy or practice. Allowing the First Assistants to serve as the acting U.S. Attorney will delay the much-needed reforms that will reinstitute the American people’s faith in the Department of Justice,” the House Republicans wrote Trump in a letter.
Replacing the First Assistant U.S. Attorneys will keep Biden Justice Department lackeys from lingering until the Senate confirms their replacements.
The Biden Justice Department politicized the U.S. Attorneys’ offices in the Hunter Biden probe and weaponized them against conservatives.
Trump has a mandate to clear out the rot in the Justice Department
Representative William Timmons (R-SC), the letter’s lead author, told Semafor that the Biden officials needed to be cleared out of the Justice Department.
“President Trump was given a mandate to root out the rot from our weaponized, two-tiered justice department,” Timmons said. “We don’t need lingering Biden-era officials.”
President Joe Biden requested that all of the U.S. Attorneys that Trump appointed resign when he took office in 2021.
Replacing First Assistant U.S. Attorneys would be unprecedented, but the House Republicans argued this was a necessary step.
These are the Justice Department officials who do the day-to-day work of prosecuting criminal cases around the country.
“By appointing Interim U.S. Attorneys rather than allowing Biden-era officials to continue serving in Acting U.S. Attorney roles, we believe the immediate transition of leadership within the Department of Justice will be a crucial opportunity to realign your Administration’s priorities and policy goals, reaffirm public confidence in the federal justice system, and ensure a cohesive vision across all U.S. Attorney offices,” the House Republicans argued.
The letter encouraged Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to come up with a list of attorneys to serve as interim U.S. Attorneys.
Biden’s Justice Department is filled with rot from top to bottom.
Trump received a mandate from voters to clear out the career employees who inhabit the Swamp who would work to undermine his administration from within.
He’s set on delivering sweeping changes to the Justice Department from the top to the bottom.
Clearing out Biden’s foot soldiers in the U.S. Attorneys’ offices would be a good first step.
