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“… While many officials at the Justice Department and other agencies often leave government at the start of a new administration, these removals and reassignments were unusual because they were ordered just as Trump took office, said Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who runs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University.
Top deputy positions in the national security division are typically career positions, though it’s possible the Trump administration is removing the career people to replace them with political appointees, she said.
“I don’t believe there were ever any career people fired at transition since the national security division was founded,” McCord said. “One of the values of having career deputies in the national security division is consistency, institutional memory and the relationships that they build with our national security partners.”
On Monday night, hours after Trump’s inauguration, the Justice Department removed at least four top officials from the office inside the agency that operates the heavily backlogged U.S. immigration courts.
Federal guidelines call for a 120-day moratorium on certain staff reassignments after new, Senate-confirmed agency leaders start their appointments. But that moratorium is not yet in effect at Justice, where attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and other nominees to top positions are still going through the confirmation process. …”
“… While many officials at the Justice Department and other agencies often leave government at the start of a new administration, these removals and reassignments were unusual because they were ordered just as Trump took office, said Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who runs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University.
Top deputy positions in the national security division are typically career positions, though it’s possible the Trump administration is removing the career people to replace them with political appointees, she said.
“I don’t believe there were ever any career people fired at transition since the national security division was founded,” McCord said. “One of the values of having career deputies in the national security division is consistency, institutional memory and the relationships that they build with our national security partners.”
On Monday night, hours after Trump’s inauguration, the Justice Department removed at least four top officials from the office inside the agency that operates the heavily backlogged U.S. immigration courts.
Federal guidelines call for a 120-day moratorium on certain staff reassignments after new, Senate-confirmed agency leaders start their appointments. But that moratorium is not yet in effect at Justice, where attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and other nominees to top positions are still going through the confirmation process. …”
