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What happened between Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions?

Nov 08, 2018 · President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, replacing the head of the Department of Justice with his chief of staff Matthew G. Whitaker. "At your request, I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in …

Why was former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired?

Jul 10, 2020 · Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York fired by President Donald Trump, told House lawmakers on Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr repeatedly asked him to resign in a private meeting before his removal, and warned that his firing could damage his reputation.

Who is Audrey Strauss and why was Berman fired?

Attorney General William Barr told the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, that he has been fired by President Donald Trump in a letter Saturday after Berman initially refused to...

Why did they fire the Attorney General of Virginia?

Jan 15, 2022 · Virginia’s new Attorney General Jason Miyares fired 30 staff members and announced investigations into the Virginia Parole Board and Loudoun County Schools within …

What is the DOJ section 508?

Section 508 directly addresses DOJ succession and provides that “ [i]n case of a vacancy in the office of Attorney General, . . . , the Deputy Attorney General may exercise all the duties of that office.” Consequently, if Sessions is fired or resigns, under this provision Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would assume the attorney general’s authorities.

Will Jeff Sessions resign?

Although Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reportedly expressed no inclination to resign, President Donald Trump’s evident and quite public “ disappointment ” over Sessions’s ( clearly correct) decision to recuse himself from investigations relating to the 2016 presidential campaign raises the prospect of a potential vacancy in the office of the attorney general. Such a vacancy would render arcane Department of Justice succession rules tremendously consequential, as the person who would act to fill that vacancy could assume the mantle of supervising Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation until a new attorney general is confirmed.

Who is Geoffrey Berman?

Berman was appointed US attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) by the Trump administration in January 2018. Long before that, in the early 1990s, he had served as an assistant US attorney for SDNY, and he had spent the next two and a half decades in private practice.

The larger context: Those who investigate Trump get shown the door

You may be forgiven for feeling a bit of déjà vu here. Berman isn’t the first Trump justice official to be pushed out — he isn’t even the first US attorney for the Southern District of New York to be fired after refusing to resign. (Preet Bharara exited the post in that fashion in March 2017.)