Political appointees are accustomed to leaving their posts with each new administration. On Friday, acting deputy attorney general Dana Boente called the 46 remaining US attorneys who had been appointed under President Obama. Mr. Boente, the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia and himself a holdover from the Obama administration, requested these attorneys’ resignations, effective immediately.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-46-obama-era-justice-dept-attorneys-155000082.html

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