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I can hardly imagine anything more insane than Biden retaining the US Attorney Bill Barr and Donald Trump installed in the District of Columbia: https://www.wsj.com/articles/blunt-top-prosecutor-on-capitol-riots-michael-sherwin-may-stay-on-under-biden-11613052000 (1/2)
Biden does not need a confirmation process to install somebody who didn't receive their job with a mandate https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/546 (2/x)
And recall the furor when Sherwin was installed over career attorneys: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/barr-installs-top-doj-aide-prosecutor-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-trespasser-over-us-prosecutors-in-washington/2020/05/18/3d2085e4-9471-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html
Stuart M. Gerson, a Republican former acting attorney general called it, "a political coup; there really can be no question about it.” (3/x)
Stuart M. Gerson, a Republican former acting attorney general called it, "a political coup; there really can be no question about it.” (3/x)
As #2, Sherwin was there for a miscarriage of justice: "Sherwin started almost a month before Barr moved to dismiss the guilty plea of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, an action no career prosecutor joined." (4/x) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/barr-installs-top-doj-aide-prosecutor-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-trespasser-over-us-prosecutors-in-washington/2020/05/18/3d2085e4-9471-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html
