Judge cancels three illegal attorney general appointments by Trump

Alternet -   Pam Bondi keeps illegally appointing attorney generals for New Jersey and local judges keep throwing them out. A chief U.S. District Judge for Pennsylvania rejected three new leaders of the New Jersey U.S. attorney's office on the argument that the Trump administration is illegally trying to circumvent Senate confirmation of U.S. attorneys.

“One year into this administration, it is plain that President [Donald] Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution,” wrote Chief District Judge Matthew W. Brann on Monday. “To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code.”

After Brann determined that Trump administration appointee Alina Habba was unlawfully serving as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and booted her, AG Pam Bondi appointed and delegated a “Byzantine” triumvirate of lesser leaders, all unconfirmed by the U.S. Senate: Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello became Senior Counsel, Special Jordan Fox and Executive Assistant US Attorney Ari Fontecchio to conduct prosecutions.

But because the triumvirate are all equally unconfirmed by the Senate, all are illegally conducting prosecutions for New Jersey, ruled Brann — who then ejected the three.