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2. there are always career prosecutors at DOJ who span different administrations
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 12:59 PM
Jun 2022

...political appointees, however, are vetted and jettisoned.

from February, 2021:

Justice Dept. Directs Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorneys to Leave
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/us/politics/justice-department-us-attorneys.html

U.S. attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in the Justice Department’s offices around the country, are typically political appointments made by presidents. When former President Donald J. Trump’s appointees leave office, their positions will be filled by acting officials, most often career prosecutors from those offices, until their replacements are confirmed, the department said in a statement on Tuesday.

“We are committed to ensuring a seamless transition,” Mr. Wilkinson said in the statement. “Until U.S. attorney nominees are confirmed, the interim and acting leaders in the U.S. attorneys’ offices will make sure that the department continues to accomplish its critical law enforcement mission, vigorously defend the rule of law and pursue the fair and impartial administration of justice for all.”

The Justice Department said that about one-third of the nation’s 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices were already being overseen by acting or interim leaders, and that President Biden would announce his nominees later.

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