Andrew Kent was quoted in a New York Daily news article regarding the possible consequences of Trump firing 46 remaining Obama-era U.S. attorneys without replacements.
“While the U.S. Attorney offices will move forward without heads in place with uncontroversial cases, like ordinary fraud and white collar crimes, there are a whole bunch of crimes that, under DOJ procedures, require approval coordination between DOJ headquarters and actual Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorneys,” said Andrew Kent, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and a former senior counsel in the New York State’s Office of the Attorney General.
“Public corruption and international terrorism need to be coordinated with main Justice. If you don’t get people in these roles, where they’re supposed to be working with prosecutors on the ground, it could really slow down high profile criminal investigations,” he said.
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“There’s very clearly some hypocrisy here. Trump and Sessions have claimed they have a very aggressive arena of activities they want to carry out in the with law enforcement,” Kent said.
