After the position was vacant for more than a year, the new appointee was sacked after an hour.

Despite the unanimous appointment by the judges, he was fired via email from the White House less than an hour after it was announced.

The office is now being run by the first assistant US attorney, Charles Neil Floyd.

In his lawsuit, Rogoff wrote that Floyd was “the president’s chosen pick”.

But in spite of this, Floyd has not been nominated for the US attorney position and thus, not confirmed by the Senate.

In the narrowly divided Senate, nominees can be forced to answer awkward or difficult questions.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    This is a little more nuanced than I thought. Trump is avoiding vetting by his appointment of the acting dude. Good to know.