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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/nyregion/new-york-area-us-attorneys-chaos.htmlhttps://archive.ph/psodA
Trump-Driven Chaos Comes to U.S. Attorneys Offices in Waves
In Manhattan, Brooklyn, Albany and Newark, confusion has reigned as prosecutors are fired or walk out, and U.S. attorneys serve in limbo while awaiting confirmation.
By Santul Nerkar and Jonah E. Bromwich
July 18, 2025 Updated 10:11 a.m. ET
On Wednesday afternoon, the highest ranking federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Jay Clayton, was blindsided.
He had just learned that officials in Washington had decided to fire Maurene Comey, a veteran prosecutor in his office, without first notifying him, according to three people with knowledge of the interaction. He was not told the reason.
The sudden firing from the Southern District of New York and Mr. Claytons inability to intervene raised questions about his autonomy as the leader of an office that has long prided itself on its independence from Washington and has led high-profile investigations into public corruption, financial crimes and gang violence.
The episode typified the chaos that has gripped four U.S. attorneys offices in the New York region since President Trump reclaimed the White House, taking closer control of the Justice Department than any president in the last half-century and rattling the nations legal system.
None of the offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Albany and Newark has a permanent leader. Instead, Mr. Trump has concentrated power within the Justice Department in Washington and, in two of the offices, has elevated loyalists with little prosecutorial experience, leading to confusion and plummeting morale within the rank and file.
His moves raise the question of what, exactly, a U.S. attorney is empowered to do, beyond serving Mr. Trumps chosen agenda.
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The Justice Department belongs to the tyrant and they must do what he says
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Trump-Driven Chaos Comes to U.S. Attorney's Offices in Waves (Original Post)
dalton99a
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underpants
(191,549 posts)1. Mobsters dream - being able to run the FBI and DOJ
Johonny
(24,194 posts)3. The law and order party cannot run
The justice department nor FBI in a way that makes one assume criminals are being prosecuted