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Trump threatens to break the glass on DOJ succession plan
Trump threatens to break the glass on DOJ succession plan
The little-noticed document is usually only applicable in the event of an attack or crisis.
By Annie Karni
06/16/2017 06:34 PM EDT
Some former Justice Department officials said they would find it inconceivable for President Donald Trump to clean house, or to fire special counsel Robert Mueller even taking into account the sometimes erratic behavior of the commander in chief.
By Jack Shafer
By Kyle Cheney, Heather Caygle and Elana Schor
An abstract, in-case-of-emergency-break-glass executive order drafted by the Trump administration in March may become real-world applicable as the president, raging publicly at his Justice Department, mulls firing special counsel Robert Mueller.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has twice rewritten an executive order that outlines the order of succession at the Justice Department once after President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend his travel ban, and then again two months later. The executive order outlines a list of who would be elevated to the position of acting attorney general if the person up the food chain recuses himself, resigns, gets fired or is no longer in a position to serve.
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That question, however, has become more complicated because the Trump administration has been slow to fill government positions and get those officials confirmed. Typically, the solicitor general would be next in line after the associate attorney general, followed by the list of five assistant U.S. attorneys, the order of which would be determined by the attorney general. But none of those individuals have been confirmed by the Senate, and they would be unable to serve as acting attorney general without Senate confirmation.
Because of that, the executive order comes into play one that puts next in line after Brand the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Dana Boente. Boente, a career federal prosecutor and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, was tapped last April to serve as the interim head of the Justice Departments national security division, which oversees the FBIs Russia investigation..............................
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Trump threatens to break the glass on DOJ succession plan (Original Post)
riversedge
Jun 2017
OP
Link? In this case, he has to fire Dana Boente first, right I mean she would be a patriot, so he
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. Link? In this case, he has to fire Dana Boente first, right I mean she would be a patriot, so he
would fire her first?
Not sure what this means, but thanks for this, I need a link if i am going to show others.
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)2. Here you go
Bayard
(22,073 posts)3. Call me ill-informed
But I thought lines of succession were laid out in something Rump can't change......like the Constitution?
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)4. The constitution does not specify DOJ protocol
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)5. "Trump Threatens"
It seems to be the theme of his Admin.