Donald Trump on Tuesday night said that he had ordered the firing of all remaining U.S. attorneys who were nominated by former President Joe Biden.
“Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys,“ Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Monday.
“We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System - THAT BEGINS TODAY!”
The Trump administration had already begun sending out termination notices to Biden-appointed attorneys last week. On Monday, a number of others who hadn’t yet been let go resigned, adding to the list of dozens of resignations.
Biden successfully nominated 68 attorneys. There are 93 positions for U.S. attorney—one for each federal judicial district, with the exception of Guam and the Northern Mariana islands, which one attorney serves.
The purge in the Justice Department—related to Trump’s rampant complaints about being indicted four times in 2023—echoes many others in the federal government. In fact, terminations have been so numerous that the department’s own lawyers weren’t able to confirm the number of firings that occurred last weekend during a hearing Monday in Washington.
