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Donald Trump-appointed prosecutors to be asked to resign by Joe Biden’s US Justice Department
The Justice Department will ask US attorneys who were appointed by former president Donald Trump to resign from their posts, as the Biden administration moves to transition to its own nominees, a senior Justice Department official says.
Key points:
- US attorneys oversee teams of prosecutors in each jurisdiction and represent the government in federal crimes
- It is fairly customary for the prosecutors to leave when a new president takes office
- The Trump administration requested 46 attorneys resign in 2017
But the prosecutor overseeing the federal tax probe involving Mr Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will remain in place.
Acting Attorney-General Monty Wilkinson called US attorney David Weiss, who runs the federal prosecutor’s office in Delaware, and…
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