DOJ Asks Dozens of Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorneys to Resign

The Department of Justice will ask dozens of Trump-appointed attorneys to step down. Starting today, the Biden Administration will begin the weeks-long process of removing almost all Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed under former President Trump. It will apply to 56 people, with the exception of two top prosecutors in Delaware and Connecticut. They’re both overseeing two sensitive Trump-era investigations. Attorney David Weiss will remain in his position where he is currently overseeing the tax probe of Hunter Biden. John Durham will also stay on to reinvestigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, but he is expected to resign as a U.S. attorney so he can be appointed to special counsel instead. While the changeover of U.S. attorneys is routine, it can also be controversial. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked 46 Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys to resign. Some were asked to stay on for longer, but eventually all of them were pushed out. The DOJ did not say when the new resignations would take full effect.