The Biden administration will “begin the transition process” to remove all Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed during the Trump administration, with two exceptions, a senior Justice Department official said.
The process can start as early as Tuesday. They will be asked to resign.
John Durham will remain in place to investigate the origins of the Russian investigation, but not as a U.S. attorney for the Connecticut district, the official said. He was appointed special counsel last year and gave extra protection to the investigation by Attorney General William Barr.
David Weiss, U.S. Attorney for Delaware, will also remain. Hunter Biden, the president’s son, said in December that federal officials in Delaware were investigating his taxes.
CNN first reported the news.
U.S. attorneys are the largest federal prosecutors in their districts and are political appointees.
In 2017, President Donald Trump suddenly ordered the resignation of 46 U.S. attorneys who own the Obama administration.
When Trump ordered his resignation in 2017, he said in a statement from the Justice Department at the time that the action had been taken “as was the case in previous transitions.”
In 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno demanded the resignation of all 93 U.S. attorneys in the early days of the Clinton administration.
