Reply #31: WP blog today...maybe more justices by June or July? [View All]

[madfloridian]

Will it be in time to keep Siegelman out of jail?

"Washington, D.C.: Do you have any idea why Republican U.S. attorneys like the one who prosecuted Don Siegelman are still in office? RESIGN.

Carrie Johnson: Hi DC. How the Obama administration will handle the appointment of U.S. attorneys is on the minds of lots of people in Washington and around the country (not just we law geeks).

I wrote a story for the Post a couple of months ago suggesting the appointment process could take a while. About half of the Bush appointees left before or after the November election but a sizeable number remain in their jobs.

Yesterday, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. suggested that it would be a matter of weeks before a first batch of U.S. attorney nominees is unveiled by the White House. Already many key senators including those in NY, Nevada, IL and elsewhere have forwarded their recommendations to the White House for consideration. And we know too that Pat Fitzgerald in Chicago and Jim Letten in New Orleans likely will stay on the beat, while Dan Bogden of Nevada, one of the nine prosecutors fired by Bush, will likely return to that office. So, to make a long answer short, you should be seeing some activity on this front in June or July."

The first batch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/14/DI2009051403253.html