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White House Replaces Justice Department Prosecutors

The White House recently fired career Justice Department lawyers, including assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Schleifer in Los Angeles on Friday and acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren in Memphis on Thursday, with Schleifer's termination stated to be "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump".
These firings occurred after the Trump administration took over in January and amid a broader effort to replace over 50 U.S. Attorneys and deputies, with some employees previously working on criminal cases against Trump.
Adam Schleifer's firing occurred via a terse email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office and without explanation, shortly after a right-wing activist, Laura Loomer, posted on social media highlighting Schleifer's past critical comments about Trump, whom she described as a "Trump hater" and a Biden administration "holdover".
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, "in coordination" with the Justice Department, the White House dismissed more than 50 U.S. Attorneys and deputies in recent weeks, and that "The American people deserve a judicial branch full of honest arbiters of the law who want to protect democracy, not subvert it."
These terminations, characterized as norm-shattering moves, have embroiled the Justice Department in turmoil, raising alarm over disregard for civil service protections and the erosion of the agency's independence from the White House, with the Associated Press filing a lawsuit against Leavitt and other officials based on First- and Fifth-amendment grounds related to an executive order concerning the naming of the Gulf of Mexico.

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