Trump is removing Geoffrey Berman as Manhattan's chief federal prosecutor, Attorney General William Barr says
has focused in part on the former New York mayor's work with business associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who helped Giuliani seek damaging information in Ukraine about the family of Joe Biden, the former U.S. vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for president in the 2020 election.
"Indeed, it is the power to remove, and not the power to appoint, which gives rise to the power to control," the memorandum states. The document raised potential conflicts of interest if judges were authorized to remove prosecutors. "Berman is the Acting U.S. Attorney by dint of a 'judicial' appointment," University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck tweeted Saturday."There’s a pretty good argument that, per the plain language of he gets to keep serving in that post until the 'vacancy' is filled through Senate confirmation of a permanent successor.""The Department of Justice opinion is simply that — an opinion," Weinstein said, adding that the document is not binding.
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