Jeff Sessions is sad that he has no one to play on his team. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
It’s like trying to win a baseball game without your first-string players on the field. [Having assistant U.S. attorneys acting as interim U.S. attorneys is] not the same as having appointed and confirmed officials who represent the priorities of the administration.
— Dean Ronald Weich of the University of Baltimore School of Law, a former assistant attorney general who ran the Justice Department’s legislative affairs division during President Barack Obama’s first term, offering his thoughts on the fact that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has yet to fill any of the vacant U.S. attorney positions he created a month after he asked holdover U.S. attorneys from the Obama administration to resign immediately.
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