The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
I agree with most of what you said, however, it should be noted that the US famously lost the war in Vietnam to a bunch of farmers with holes and booby traps. And insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan kept us busy for over a decade, only for us to pretty much lose those wars as well.
So I’m not sure it’s entirely true that armed resistance would be completely futile. But it certainly would be bloody and drawn out.
War is waged a little differently now than when we were in Vietnam, though I understand your point.