This doesnt usually happen regardless of whos party is in charge.

So maybe... Theres something different about this president.

Excellence says the Clintons are the yardstick of virtue lol.

They already prosecuted Cohen for a crime that implicated Trump, and it's been reported they were investigating Trump's personal attorney Guiliani. Who knows what else they are investigating.

Even if it were shown SDNY was investigating Trump, would that change your opinion at all? You'd just find a way to spin it in Trump's favor, as you do for basically everything.

Yes, political firings happen. This obviously isn't some normal political firing. For people who actually care about holding those in power accountable, this firing raises a number of questions.

What does this have to do with anything? Yes, presidents get into office and appoint new US attorneys. We're in year 3 of the Trump administration, and Berman isn't an Obama holdover.

authority given by law =\= virtue. not my fault you hate the candidates you vote for


so this topic is much ado about nothing, good job lmao

This usually happens with every president



Did you say the same thing when Bush cleared them out years in?

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 20 2020 05:25pm

Are you getting dumber or what?



Must we play the whataboutist game with everything? Bush fired 7 US attorneys and just reviewing the incident, it looks like it was controversial and was investigated.

yes

if the question is whether its this usually happens regardless of whos party controls the white house, the answer is that its actually pretty normal and every president does it. They all sweep the last administrations attorneys at some point, whether right away or staggered or sometimes quite late into a term or even halfway into their second term. Trump did most of his just a few months in after Preet Bharara & co decided to grandstand and refuse to enforce the president's agenda rather than serve apolitically until their replacement could be confirmed. Specifically calling the Travel Ban unconstitutional, which years later saw Trump vindicated in court as it was declared constitutional by SCOTUS, rebuking the attorneys who denounced it. And of course, we're still in that same void left by Preet. Who was only kept on for those initial few months because Chuck Schumer promised Trump he was a neutral apolitical professional who could do his job without doing the exact kind of nonsense he did. Now its going to be up to Chuck Schumer to blue-slip Preet's replacement, over 3 years later. And if Biden wins, that replacement might only be there a few months

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 20 2020 05:50pm

Replacing US attorneys at the beginning of an administration is normal. The way Berman was replaced was not, and neither was Bush's firings.