New US administration seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys
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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 US attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration.
Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by former president Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave "in order to ensure a uniform transition," Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Friday.
It is fairly customary for the 93 US attorneys to leave their positions after a new president is in office, but the departures are not automatic and don't necessarily happen all at once. One US attorney appointed by President George W. Bush, Rod Rosenstein of Maryland, remained on the job for the entire Obama administration and is the current nominee for deputy attorney general in the Trump administration.
