Iglesias job still wide open, Replacement process for U.S. Attorney slowed

Source: Albuquerque Tribune

Plans to replace fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias appear to have bogged down amid the firestorm over Iglesias' ouster.

U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici submitted the names of four possible replacements to the White House for the New Mexico post in early January, two months before controversy exploded over the firings of Iglesias and seven other U.S. attorneys.

Though another possible replacement has since surfaced, the process seems to have stalled.

Three of the potential replacements told The Tribune on June 13 that they've heard nothing for months, and all expressed waning interest in the job.

"I haven't heard anything in so long that I'm presuming they've decided on something else," said Charles Peifer, an Albuquerque lawyer who was among the four names originally submitted by Domenici.



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Given the senator's role in the firing of Iglesia - anyone he would nominate would be suspect of having been identified and approved as a loyal party political operative rather than well qualified to be a federal attorney. Not a shock that interest is waning.

when Mom said "One of you cuts the piece of cake in half, the other gets first choice.."

He's sitting there trying to figure out how to make an appointee look like a non-ideological, well qualified nomination, while still maintaining absolute control over what he does, how he does it and the Law be damned.

setting up a real-life double bind with a win-win solution, unless of course, you both wanted all that was left and spent the next 8 years deciding how best to get it. Then, for sake of the argument, I assume you both lost interst, the cake got moldy, or she and Dad split it up more ecumenically themselves that very night.

Guess they don't call it the "widow's slice" for nothing.