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... U.S. attorneys are the most powerful prosecutorial posts in the country, deciding which criminal investigations to pursue and who must face off against the federal government in court.

Trump has repeatedly filled those jobs with people who have never worked as prosecutors before " and many of those people have either been disqualified, reprimanded by judges for inappropriate conduct, or seen their cases fall apart.

"This administration seems to think of U.S. attorneys as messenger boys for the president and his people at the top of the Justice Department, rather than independent actors of substance," said Dan Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former federal prosecutor. ...