At 7:40 a.m. Wednesday, federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court judge and federal prosecutor Roger Rogoff as their pick for U.S. attorney.
Fifty-four minutes later, President Donald Trump fired him.
Rogoff, who recently resigned as director of the state office of independent investigations, formed to investigate police killings, is now the rope in a tug-of-war with the Trump administration. The district’s 17 sitting federal judges began looking for a replacement for Neil Floyd in January after the president failed to formally nominate him, instead appointing Floyd as interim and later as a “first assistant” U.S. attorney in order to sidestep the nomination process.
Rogoff said he was waiting in the lobby of the U.S. District Courthouse downtown to meet with Floyd, and presumably take Floyd’s office, when he got an email saying he’d been fired.
“We are working on legal action right now,” Rogoff said. “The rule of law requires that prosecutorial decisions remain free from political interference, and that lawful judicial appointments be respected. I remain grateful for the confidence placed in me and proud of the career professionals who continue to serve the people of Western Washington.”
Rogoff’s firing sets up a legal battle over a federal statute that gives a district’s federal judges authority to appoint a U.S. attorney if there is no formal nomination or Senate hearing.
Tired of being part of this dysfunctional family.
Americans have spent decades explaining that the obscene amount of firearm deaths in the US was the price to pay for their precious 2nd amendment that guarantees them the possibility to rise up against tyrants and abusive governments, should it ever happen.
Well, it's happened. And sure enough, they ain't doing nothing with it because it was all a bunch of baloney. America is all talk and no walk.
The idiots that believe and/or spout that shit are the same ones who are in support of this fascism. It was, at best, bullshit from the beginning. A) the 2nd amendment is not and never was meant to be an allowance for insurrection. If you think insurrection was ever constitutionally protected, as in the framers were carving out a legal pathway to destroy what they built, you're deluded. And, particularly, if you think that that would hold true under the tyrannical government that would be in control in this hypothetical... you're a moron. B) Also you have pistols, rifles, and shotguns. They have those things as well as tanks, jets, drones, missles, and nukes. The idea of your uprising is a fantasy.
At worst, it was an excuse to keep your toys and your paranoid delusions of standing your ground if a brown guy ever tried to enter your home and minimize the tens of thousands of gun deaths each year as unimportant in comparison.
And even if an uprising were to happen today, the unfortunate truth is that it wouldn't be the whole of America against its government. It would have, at most, half of its people's support, a subset of that half actually ready, willing, and able to take up arms, and they wouldn't just be beseiging government buildings in DC. They would be fighting an army of MAGA and their allies and most of the military. And those in power would be in secret bunkers all over the globe well out of harms way.
Modern day insurrection in a technologically advanced and politically divided country would not be the American Revolution 2.0. Politics has changed. Warfare has changed. There will be a successful revolution again in a western country at some point in the future. It is an inevitability. But I don't think anyone even knows what such a thing would look like right now. My thought is that it would have to either be an extremely fast, secret, targeted, and totally destructive action over a matter of days to prevent time to mobilize against it, a joint war effort with the backing of another state power that can stand toe to toe with the regime, or the regime would have to be so repugnant in enough ways that it has nearly no popular domestic support and its own military would side against it. Given the amount of surveillance in aspects of modern life, the relative military power levels between the US and nearly all other nations and lack of willingness to start another world war, and the complete brainwashing and reality warping of a large portion of the population and the military to continue supporting the Trump Administration no matter what they do... I don't see such things happening successfully anytime soon. Call me a cynic.
cant afford to lose ammosexual voting conservative, and putting people in for profit prisons. which goes back funding LEOs and the politicians with our tax money.
And it's honestly just the chaff from the bumper crops
It’s tempting to think that Americans have done this, but it’s really just the 10-20% of our loudest, dumbest, and most gullible
source: stuck here with them
Closer to 40%
Literally yelling at a community of people who live in one of the most left-leaning states in the union lol
What are you even doing in this community then?
I'm going to say the same thing I've said before to these kinds of takes - it's really fucking easy to send other people to their deaths behind your screen, isn't it?
It is not viable for us to storm into Seattle and what? Hold guns to people's heads until this guy gets his job back? What are you doing here?