All posts tagged "Us Attorney"

A Seattle U.S. attorney who was fired less than an hour after his judicial appointment is suing the Trump administration.

The Department of Justice reportedly fired Roger Rogoff via email only 54 minutes after he was unanimously appointed by federal judges in the Western District of Washington. President Donald Trump had left the district's U.S. attorney seat vacant, leading judges to fill it themselves with Rogoff.

Rogoff filed his lawsuit on Tuesday, July 21, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, where he was briefly the top DOJ official. The lawsuit alleges that Trump broke the law by firing him without appointing a Senate-confirmed successor....

Unlawfully appointed interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan recently suffered another public embarrassment after a legal reporter noticed an obvious spelling error in her official signature.

On Thursday, NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly posted to Bluesky that Halligan had misspelled Virginia as "Virgina" in the block that's used for her signature on legal documents. Halligan's signature block reads: "Lindsey Halligan, United States Attorney Eastern District of Virgina[sic] Florida Bar No. 109481 2100," with her office's address.

Halligan's error was quickly mocked by various legal experts on the platform. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) attorney Kevin H. Bell quipped: "A deep dark secret of both the legal profession and the US government is that virtually everything is copy pasted." Albany Times-Union editor Casey Seilar parlayed the spelling error into a play on the Old Dominion State's official slogan by writing: "Virgina is for lovers."...

Republican senators are mulling whether to defy President Donald Trump by rejecting his dubious pick for U.S. attorney, Ed Martin, news outlets reported Thursday.

Politico's Kyle Cheney posted on X Thursday, "Something is going on with Ed Martin's nomination to be US attorney in D.C. But what, precisely, is unclear Sen. Durbin said this AM: 'It’s my understanding that we are not going to move forward on the Martin nomination.' Grassley said he'd have more to say when Martin's nomination was officially on the calendar."

In a follow-up post, Cheney wrote, "Durbin said he had planned to ask for a vote on Martin today but 'on the basis of the chairman's — I hope, my clear understanding — I'm not going to make that move.' Grassley said he's still reviewing Martin's paperwork and his staff has some additional questions."...