Trump Just Caved On One of His Biggest Power Grabs

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice quietly caved in one of its biggest brawls with the federal judiciary on Monday, conceding district courts’ authority to appoint U.S. attorneys after a series of stinging legal defeats. In a filing, the Justice Department accepted a court’s appointment of Robert Frazer as head of New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, an abrupt reversal of its assertion that courts have no such power. Its capitulation ended an eight-month standoff during which New Jersey lacked a lawfully serving U.S. attorney after the DOJ refused to replace Alina Habba with a legitimate successor

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