US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked 46 attorneys who served under the Obama administration to resign, the Justice Department announced.
The Department described the move as part of an effort to ensure a "uniform transition." The Department said that some US attorneys, as in prior transitions, already had left the department. Now, "the Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed US Attorneys to tender their resignations," a spokeswoman said.
"Until the new US Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our US Attorney’s Offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders," the statement added.
It is customary, though not automatic, for the country's 93 US attorneys to leave their positions once a new president is in office. Incoming administrations over the past several decades typically have replaced most US attorneys during the first year or two.
Source: QNA
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