The Justice Department plans to seek the resignation of most U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Trump, CNN reported Monday.
The transition move between administrations is expected to impact 56 U.S. attorneys who were confirmed by the Senate, a senior Justice Department official told CNN. The official said the calls for such resignations may begin as early as Tuesday.
The official said the process is anticipated to take weeks but did not indicate when the resignations would take effect. Department officials reportedly have scheduled a call with U.S. attorneys for the transition.
But President Biden’s Justice Department plans to keep at least two prosecutors to continue their work. Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson requested Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to stay on during a Monday call in order to keep working on his investigation into the president’s son, Hunter Biden, according to CNN.
Special counsel John Durham, appointed by former Attorney General William Barr, will also be asked to continue his investigation into the origins of the previous probe into the Trump campaign’s links to Russia. But he will resign as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut.
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JUST IN: Justice Dept to seek resignations of most Trump-appointed US attorneys: report https://t.co/tyk4dJFD1I pic.twitter.com/0HkKjZS9qx
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