Russia scandal ices government lawyer hiring
Trump has top DOJ positions as well as U.S. attorney posts and judicial vacancies to fill, but as scandals have spread, the candidate pool has shrunk.
By Josh Gerstein
05/28/2017 07:06 AM EDT
President Donald Trump was already struggling to fill hundreds of top legal jobs throughout the federal government.
Over the past two weeks, that task became exponentially more difficult, according to top GOP lawyers.
Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey and the subsequent string of allegations — from Trump demanding a pledge of loyalty from Comey and pressuring him to ease off a probe into his former aide, to revelations that Trump trashed Comey as a “nut job” in an Oval Office meeting with top Russian officials — have narrowed the ranks of people willing to serve.
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