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The U.S. attorney who filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Trump administration after he was abruptly fired last week told MS NOW\u2019S Nicolle Wallace that \u201cthe rule of law is not being followed\u201d and said the people of the Western District of Washington deserve a \u201clegitimate\u201d top prosecutor who has been \u201cappointed pursuant to the legislative acts that have been created according to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A panel of judges unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to the position on July 15, which had been vacant for more than three years. However, less than an hour after his selection, he was notified via email that he would be removed from his post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rogoff, who previously served as a judge and a prosecutor, said the firing was illegal, arguing in his complaint that President Donald Trump can\u2019t fire court-appointed U.S. attorneys. He said he should serve in the role until the president appoints and the Senate confirms a replacement.<\/p>\n

Typically, U.S. attorneys are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. However, judges can fill the role if there is a long-term vacancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is that the president is supposed to appoint U.S. attorneys across the country, but he has to do it with the advice and consent of the Senate, and he hasn\u2019t done that,\u201d Rogoff told Wallace on \u201cDeadline: White House\u201d on Thursday. \u201cThe rule of law is not being followed. The purpose of the advice and consent clause of the Constitution is being frustrated, and that\u2019s not the way that the process is supposed to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit names the president, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department as defendants.<\/p>\n

Rogoff isn\u2019t the first judicially-appointed U.S. attorney to be fired by the administration. Trump has terminated prosecutors in New Jersey, New York, Nevada and Virginia. But Rogoff is the first to challenge the firing in a court of law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy connection to the Department of Justice, no matter who\u2019s been in office, whether it\u2019s been Democrats and Republicans, has been light touches, and I am not involved in what happens at Maine Justice,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this case, with this department, with this district that I live in, and that I\u2019ve worked in my entire career, it is not working the way it\u2019s supposed to work. And someone needs to make it work right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The former prosecutor told Wallace his legal challenge was not about politics, but about protecting the process laid out in the Constitution. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that Republican, Democrat, or whatever really matters with this lawsuit,\u201d he said. \u201cThe idea is that every president faces hurdles with Congress, and the idea is that the president figures it out and appoints someone who can be confirmed, whether that takes a couple tries or not.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the way presidents have done it forever, and that\u2019s the way this president should do it as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to X, Blanche maintained that the president had the right to dismiss Rogoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDistrict court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The acting attorney general, who is in the midst of his own confirmation battle, said the Seattle-area panel of judges did not consult with the White House about their selection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWDWA judges abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration,\u201d he said. \u201cRoger Rogoff has been fired by the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

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