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AG Sessions asks remaining 46 US attorneys to resign.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked the remaining 46 U.S. attorneys to resign, the Justice Department announced Friday.
The department said some attorneys, as in prior transitions, already had left the department. The statement said, “the Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition.”
“Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney’s Offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders,” the statement added.
The move comes amid Republican concerns that officials who also served under the Obama administration may be working against the Trump administration.
It’s unclear whether Friday’s announcement is in any way tied to such concerns.
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