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 happened here can happen to you, too. Don’t feel so safe, fascism is on the rise globally. What will you do when the fascists come knocking?
More than the Americans.
Ah, so you’ll continue being terminally online when fascism comes to you, got it! You have no ideas, just want to feel like you’re better than someone else.
Lol. Work on your cardio. Get a gun. Learn how to grow your own food. Organize. Things are going to get bad, then they’ll get worse. Good luck!
Hmm, almost like my neighbors and I are already doing all of this… interesting. It’s almost like you have no idea what it’s like here, especially not in the PNW.
You wouldn’t have just been talking out of your ass, right? You must’ve experienced it here to be so confident that people weren’t doing these very basic, baseline tasks that are foundational to PNW culture.
Keep it up, girlfriend.
We will, with or without you talking out of your ass, not to worry.
So I’ve given you advice, you literally say you’re doing the advice, and somehow I’m talking out of my ass, lol. What the fuck is wrong with you?
You’re talking out of your ass because you think that we aren’t already doing that (you said we weren’t doing anything). So, if that’s all the advice you have, maybe don’t say that we aren’t doing anything.
You had to be sexist on top of being a jerk. Stay classy.
How is that sexist? It’s positive affirmation lol.
Attempting to purposefully misgender someone as a woman to get a dig in is sexist.
Yeah, you’re right, not a single one of us out of hundreds of millions are doing those things.
I would imagine the shitty right wing militias outnumber the leftists by a wide margin but I really hope I’m wrong about that.
You’re in the Seattle community. The right wing “militias” are vastly outnumbered by leftists in Western WA.
And you’re vastly outnumbered in the country as a whole, I assume.
This is an article, posted to the Seattle community, about a western WA attorney. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed.
There’s almost 350 million people here. You have no idea what even half of us are doing.
Lol.