{"id":434,"date":"2017-03-14T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-03-14T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:30:46","slug":"trumps-firing-of-obama-appointed-federal-prosecutors-creates-opportunity-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/434","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Firing Of Obama Appointed Federal Prosecutors Creates Opportunity for Democrats…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting thoughts. Trump’s firing of Obama appointed federal prosecutors possibly benefiting democrats?\u00a0 People of the caliber and talent Trump fired may result in republicans losing\u00a0elected offices\u00a0in the next 2 to 4 years perhaps? certainly something we would be more than happy to see!<\/p>\n

From POLITICO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Until Friday, Barbara McQuade served as United States attorney in Eastern Michigan. By Saturday, one day after the Trump administration demanded her resignation, her prospects as a candidate for governor or attorney general were the talk of the state Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

McQuade was among more than 40 U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama and let go by President Donald Trump last week, an act that suddenly flooded the political marketplace with experienced federal prosecutors of the sort both parties love to tap to run for high office.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a move that could come back to haunt the GOP. New York is buzzing with rumors about what\u2019s next for Preet Bharara, the highest-profile of the former U.S. attorneys, who has been tipped for elected office in the past. Kenneth Polite, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, resigned Friday and immediately reinvigorated talk of a run for state attorney general, mayor of New Orleans or sheriff of Orleans Parish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come with a lot of advantages,\u201d said Ian Russell, former political director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whose committee department recruited federal prosecutors as potential candidates. \u201cThere\u2019s the prosecutorial experience, the sense of respect Americans have for the impartial Justice Department. They\u2019ve got political connections, but their work is nonpolitical in nature, and there are firewalls to protect that. Many have fundraising and political support networks they could tap.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The last time the presidency changed hands, it was Republicans who reaped the benefits of U.S. attorneys\u2019 prestige and connections.<\/p>\n

Within a year of the end of the George W. Bush administration, Chris Christie was elected governor of New Jersey and a collection of fellow former U.S. attorneys were already running high-profile campaigns. Matt Mead, a Bush-era U.S. attorney, won election as Wyoming governor in 2010, the same year that Pennsylvania\u2019s Patrick Meehan and Arkansas\u2019 Tim Griffin were elected to the House. Meehan quickly became one of the best fundraisers in the House landscape when he jumped into the race for a Philadelphia-area swing seat, which he won.<\/p>\n

Two other Bush-era U.S. attorneys would follow them into the House: Susan Brooks of Indiana in 2012 and John Ratcliffe of Texas in 2014.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is a lot of political skill that is invested in people assigned to those jobs,\u201d said Thomas Heffelfinger, a former U.S. attorney during both Bush administrations, who noted that President Bill Clinton removed him from office in a fashion similar to Trump’s recent oustings. \u201cAnd, to be blunt, you don\u2019t get those jobs without asking for them, so there\u2019s that kind of small-level electioneering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell said it is \u201clogical\u201d to expect Democrats to try recruiting as many of the ex-prosecutors as possible for state and federal offices in 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take every opportunity to make lemonade whenever possible.<\/p>\n

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Interesting thoughts. Trump’s firing of Obama appointed federal prosecutors possibly benefiting democrats?\u00a0 People of the caliber and talent Trump fired may result in republicans losing\u00a0elected offices\u00a0in the next 2 to 4 years perhaps? certainly something we would be more than happy to see! From POLITICO Until Friday, Barbara McQuade served as United States attorney in … Continue reading Trump’s Firing Of Obama Appointed Federal Prosecutors Creates Opportunity for Democrats…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-70","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":396,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/396","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":0},"title":"Trump Fires 46 Obama Appointed Prosecutors Friday…","author":"Les","date":"March 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"To the victor goes the spoils. 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