{"id":118492,"date":"2025-05-09T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/09\/ambiguity-over-term-limits-means-courts-may-have-to-determine-next-u-s-attorneys-in-high-profile-districts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:43:31","slug":"ambiguity-over-term-limits-means-courts-may-have-to-determine-next-u-s-attorneys-in-high-profile-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/09\/ambiguity-over-term-limits-means-courts-may-have-to-determine-next-u-s-attorneys-in-high-profile-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguity Over Term Limits Means Courts May Have to Determine Next U.S. Attorneys in High-Profile Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration signals it might test the term limits of U.S. attorneys, sidestepping Senate confirmation and the courts. Those questions may lead to conflict between the role of U.S. district judges and the executive branch in selecting top federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

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Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration signals it might test the term limits of U.S. attorneys, sidestepping Senate confirmation and the courts. Those questions may lead to conflict between the role of U.S. district judges and the executive branch in selecting top federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

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Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration signals it might test the term limits of U.S. attorneys, sidestepping Senate confirmation and the courts. Those questions may lead to conflict between the role of U.S. district judges and the executive branch in selecting top federal prosecutors. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unanswered legal questions remain as the Trump administration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legal-news-ql6qif.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}