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A group of Republican House members is calling on US President-elect Donald Trump and attorney general nominee Pam Bondi to replace all 93 US attorneys with interim replacements, according to a letter shared first with Semafor.
The move would ensure any Biden-era federal prosecutors don’t automatically rise in the ranks to fill the slots of outgoing US attorneys while new ones are considered by the Senate.
“President Trump was given a mandate to root out the rot from our weaponized, two-tiered justice department,” Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., the lead author of the letter, told Semafor. “We don’t need lingering Biden-era officials.”
The signatories make up a broad coalition of more than 30 GOP members, including Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.