At 7:40 a.m. Wednesday, federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court judge and federal prosecutor Roger Rogoff as their pick for U.S. attorney.
Fifty-four minutes later, President Donald Trump fired him.
Rogoff, who recently resigned as director of the state office of independent investigations, formed to investigate police killings, is now the rope in a tug-of-war with the Trump administration. The district’s 17 sitting federal judges began looking for a replacement for Neil Floyd in January after the president failed to formally nominate him, instead appointing Floyd as interim and later as a “first assistant” U.S. attorney in order to sidestep the nomination process.
Rogoff said he was waiting in the lobby of the U.S. District Courthouse downtown to meet with Floyd, and presumably take Floyd’s office, when he got an email saying he’d been fired.
“We are working on legal action right now,” Rogoff said. “The rule of law requires that prosecutorial decisions remain free from political interference, and that lawful judicial appointments be respected. I remain grateful for the confidence placed in me and proud of the career professionals who continue to serve the people of Western Washington.”
Rogoff’s firing sets up a legal battle over a federal statute that gives a district’s federal judges authority to appoint a U.S. attorney if there is no formal nomination or Senate hearing.
What are you even doing in this community then?
I’m going to say the same thing I’ve said before to these kinds of takes - it’s really fucking easy to send other people to their deaths behind your screen, isn’t it?
It is not viable for us to storm into Seattle and what? Hold guns to people’s heads until this guy gets his job back? What are you doing here?
Shut the fuck up and fight back against the fascist takeover. We’re sick of your excuses.
Rising up with guns like you want simply isn’t going to work against the US army. All you’re calling for is unnecessary death.
Do you even see the post you’re commenting on?
Kk keep letting them kill you in the streets and murdering more civilians overseas. History will see you as collaborators or cowards.
Are you just throwing a fit because we actually made headway in stopping the funding of Israel today?
Why would that upset me? Death to Israel.
You’re clearly very upset here despite us Americans pushing back against our fascist government. Maybe a little nap will help?
What have you done to push back, lmfao?
Read the news, why don’t you?
Username does not check out.
How original
You picked it and then chose to conduct yourself this way.
I laugh every time someone makes that joke at you.
I mean, I know what I’m like, it’s meant to be ironic, lol.
And yet you act like it’s a reflection on the rest of us for pointing out your actions perfectly match your username.
It is a reflection. It’s the lowest hanging fruit possible lol. I didn’t come to lemmy to hear recycled reddit meme catch phrases.
Fooled me, you’re a walking recycled reddit meme all on your own.
Don’t worry, that wasn’t really directed at you.
How?
Open a history book and read about the resistance against Germany in Germany in the 1930s
Great. What specific actions are you demanding people undertake because you said so? “Just fight back” is real fucking easy to tell other people to do, but you have no fucking idea what that would even entail in this case. Thanks for your stellar contribution here.
They want us to die. That’s it.
I can understand people’s general hatred of the US based on our government’s actions and such, but jesus christ, there’s gotta be more productive ways of expressing it than yelling at randos in a city community on Lemmy.
We want you to offer friction to a literal fascist takeover of your country.
Then you have no idea what’s actually happening here.
Outsiders actually have a much more whole picture than what’s offered by imperial core propaganda lol.
I guess you’re right, maybe they won’t murder you if you roll over and show them your bellies. Good luck, Velma.
If I offered nothing, what the fuck are you adding, lmao?
Okay, armchair cowboy. Have a nice day.
Thanks, you too.
I’m not sending anyone to their death, I’m stating a fact: Americans claim they have guns to protect democracy and they’re letting Temu Hitler and his henchmen wreck their democracy. That’s all I’m saying.
There is a safe and bullet-free way out of this you know: secession.
Those guns aren’t going to do shit against the US army, but ok.
Keep playing in your fantasy land where you can send as many Americans to their deaths as you want.
Now I know you’re delusional. Secession would not be safe or bullet-free.
Youre willfully missing the person’s main point. That Americans cried about freedom and liberty, backed up with arms that they can use to fight off the gov, but when the time came, people would rather just keep their heads down and work. Which is understandable, but does put a lie to the idea your guns are to protect you from the gov.
The country has like 400 million people in it.
The ones who harp on about guns, and the ones who want trump gone do not have a whole lot of overlap.
Not to mention that Washington State holds about a third of the US’s nuclear arsenal.
There isn’t going to be a peaceful way to secede here.