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A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to provisionally reinstate the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, who was fired this summer amid a larger dispute over the president’s authority to fill key prosecutorial posts with loyalists of his choosing.

washingtonpost.comTrump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rulesThe ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.

2/10/26, 1:45 am24 reposts88 likes

rethink2012.bsky.social

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He’s going to run to the Supreme Court again . They’ll back up their judicial brethren. This theory of the unitary presidency has got to be disproven one of these times. We’ve been a representative democracy for 250 years and tho imperfect, we’re striving to be better.

Big Jim

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