I asked the DOJ why Trump's US attorney picks keep getting ousted

Another week, another series of tense interactions ahead between President Donald Trump's Department of Justice and the federal judges who keep holding him accountable to the rule of law.

Lindsey Halligan, a MAGA loyalist who Trump appointed as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has until Jan. 13 to explain in writing to a federal judge why she's still using that title, after another judge ousted her from that post on Nov. 24.

And that's not the only headache brewing for the Department of Justice.

A judge in the Northern District of New York on Jan. 8 ousted John Sarcone III, Trump's pick for U.S. attorney there, the fifth time that has happened since Trump took office last January. The Department of Justice now must decide if it will appeal to keep Sarcone in that post.

Halligan and Sarcone, who had no prosecutorial experience before their appointments, have been key players in Trump's game of retribution against two of his best-known perceived enemies, former FBI Director James Comey and

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