Reply #153: Each new president traditionally replaces his predecessor's U.S. AGs ....

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Obama Administration Poised To Pick U.S. Attorneys : NPRJan 27, 2009 ... Each new president traditionally replaces his predecessor's U.S. ... Each U.S. attorney is like a local attorney general, ... It's traditional for each president to replace all of the former president's U.S. attorneys. ...
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Again, Obama invited all the Bush AGs to stay -- 51 of them accepted.

Each new president traditionally replaces his predecessor's U.S. attorneys with new appointees. Obama has not yet nominated anyone. But according to sources close to the process, administration staffers have solicited recommendations from some members of Congress about who the new U.S. attorneys will be.

Those recommendations primarily come from the senior Democratic senator in each state. In states where both senators are Republicans, the administration is working with the state's most senior Democrat in the House.

In early January, the Justice Department asked all of President Bush's U.S. attorneys to remain in their posts until further notice. Not all of them chose to stay. There has been a steady exodus over the past several months, as is typical at the end of an administration.

According to the Justice Department, by the time President Obama was inaugurated, only 54 of the 93 U.S. attorneys were Senate-confirmed appointees. The rest were a mix of acting officials and interim appointees.

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