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President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>administration fired a U.S. attorney on Wednesday, hours after he was appointed by federal judges.<\/p>\n Donald Kinsella<\/strong> was appointed the U.S. attorney in New York\u2019s Northern District in place of John A. Sarcone III<\/strong>, who left his post as the acting U.S. attorney after a judge blocked Sarcone from any further involvement in the investigation of New York Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James,\u00a0<\/strong>claiming he was not lawfully serving in the office at the time the subpoenas were issued in the case.<\/p>\n Within hours of Kinsella\u2019s appointment, the new U.S attorney recived an email from a White House official, who claimed Kinsella was being removed from his post. Kinsella told\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>that he was unsure whether the email could legally constitute his firing, claiming he would speak to the district judges who appointed him before taking any steps.<\/p>\n Deputy Attorney General\u00a0Todd Blanche, <\/strong>however, seemed to feel the email did carry legal weight. Blanche replied to a post that broke the news, written by a reporter at the TimesUnion who first reported the story. He claimed that Kinsella was officially \u201cfired.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJudges don\u2019t pick U.S. Attorneys, @POTUS does. See Article II of our Constitution,\u201d Blanche wrote. \u201cYou are fired, Donald Kinsella.\u201d<\/p>\n The move on the part of the Trump administration continues the White House\u2019s long battle over the appointment of U.S. attorneys.<\/p>\n In December of last year, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, <\/strong>was barred from her previously held post as New Jersey\u2019s top federal prosecutor after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision that found she was unlawfully serving in her position.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s handpicked prosecutor in northern Virginia, Lindsey Halligan,\u00a0<\/strong>was dually deemed to have been \u201cunlawfully appointed\u201d in November. Her illegal appointment was the basis for the dismissal of charges against ex-FBI Director James Comey<\/strong> and Letitia James.<\/p>\n Halligan left the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Janurary, after a judge called her repeated attempts to identify herself in court filings as the U.S. attorney a \u201ccharade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Trump Admin Fires U.S. Attorney Within Hours Of His Appointment first appeared on Mediaite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n