{"id":2633571,"date":"2026-07-22T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-us-attorney-sues-trump-administration-after-being-fired-an-hour-after-being-appointed\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:29:39","slug":"former-us-attorney-sues-trump-administration-after-being-fired-an-hour-after-being-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-us-attorney-sues-trump-administration-after-being-fired-an-hour-after-being-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US attorney sues Trump administration after being fired an hour after being appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-us-attorney-sues-trump-administration-after-being-fired-an-hour-after-being-appointed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2633571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former U.S. attorney, Roger Rogoff, has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and teh department of Justice after being fired just 54 minutes after his appointment. Rogoff seeks a preliminary injunction to be reinstated, arguing that his removal was illegal under federal law and the U.S. Constitution. His complaint claims the firing violated the appointments clause,which requires a Senate confirmation for such positions. Rogoff\u2019s lawyers contend he should serve until a senate-confirmed replacement is appointed, which has not happened. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-illinois-speaker-madigan-to-begin-prison-sentence\/\" title=\"Former Illinois speaker Madigan to begin prison sentence\">case highlights ongoing issues<\/a> with the turnover of U.S. attorneys under the Trump administration, including Rogoff\u2019s brief appointment and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >firing amid broader questions<\/a> about legal processes and political interference. The acting U.S.Attorney General and others have defended the firing, citing administrative procedures, but Rogoff\u2019s lawsuit seeks to challenge the legality of his removal. This case may set a precedent regarding judicial appointments and the firing of interim U.S. attorneys.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former U.S. attorney whom President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> fired less than an hour into his role has sued the president and the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"438\">Department of Justice<\/a> over his abrupt firing, requesting a preliminary injunction to restore him to the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger Rogoff, a former judge and career prosecutor, filed the lawsuit in the Western District of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Washington\/\">Washington<\/a>, where he was appointed U.S. attorney for just 54 minutes before Trump removed him from the post. Rogoff and his attorneys argue that his removal was illegal and are requesting the court invalidate the firing and restore him as U.S. attorney.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4658345\/former-us-attorney-sues-trump-administration-fired-hour-after-appointed\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Former US attorney sues Trump administration after being fired an hour after being appointed<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4658214\/mamdani-arrest-netanyahu-authority-icc-warrant\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mamdani says he lacks authority to arrest Netanyahu but urges Trump to do so<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4657875\/peter-navarro-contempt-of-congress-conviction-upheld-by-appeals-court\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Peter Navarro contempt of Congress conviction upheld by appeals court<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogoff\u2019s 29-page complaint argues the Trump administration violated federal laws around judicial appointments, which are constitutionally enshrined in the appointments clause. His lawyers said that, under the correct legal procedure, Rogoff would serve as the court-appointed U.S. attorney until the president nominates a permanent appointee of his own to the post and the Senate confirms that appointee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis Court acted in accordance with the express terms of that congressional enactment when it appointed Rogoff as U.S. Attorney. The President may not summarily fire him,\u201d Rogoff\u2019s attorneys wrote in their preliminary injunction request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Attorney\u2019s office in Western Washington has been turned over several times in the past couple of years. The last Senate-confirmed attorney to sit in the office was current state Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atg.wa.gov\/about-nick-brown\">Nick Brown<\/a>, who was appointed by then-President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"471\">Joe Biden<\/a> in 2021 but resigned in 2023 to run for the top office. After Brown resigned, Tessa Gorman served as acting U.S. attorney, then U.S. attorney in the seat, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\/pr\/tessa-m-gorman-sworn-us-attorney-western-district-washington\">appointed<\/a> by then-U.S. Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/merrick-garland\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"682\">Merrick Garland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sworn in as regular U.S. attorney in January 2024, Gorman was then fired under the Trump administration and replaced by interim U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd, who was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\/pr\/charles-neil-floyd-appointed-interim-us-attorney-western-district-washington\">appointed<\/a> by then-Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pam-bondi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11687\">Pam Bondi<\/a>. After Floyd\u2019s 120-day interim term expired, the court tapped Rogoff for the job. Since Rogoff\u2019s firing, Floyd has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\">leading the court<\/a> as the first assistant U.S. attorney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogoff\u2019s lawyers argue that their client \u201cshall serve \u2018until the vacancy is filled\u2019 by a Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney,\u201d according to federal statute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut no person has yet been nominated, let alone confirmed, to fill the vacancy,\u201d his lawyers wrote in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.wawd.366075\/gov.uscourts.wawd.366075.1.0.pdf\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting U.S. Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/todd-blanche\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"20883\">Todd Blanche<\/a>, who is facing a<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4657945\/todd-blanche-gop-holdouts-attorney-general-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\/\"> Senate confirmation vote<\/a> of his own, defended Trump\u2019s move of firing Rogoff on July 15, arguing the court had not properly consulted the administration on the nomination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4651025\/trump-fires-seattle-prosecutor-roger-rogoff\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4651025\">TRUMP FIRES NEWLY APPOINTED TOP SEATTLE PROSECUTOR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDistrict court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them. WDWA judges abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration,\u201d Blanche <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAGToddBlanche\/status\/2077501246294929627?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogoff is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4466268\/lawyer-chosen-federal-prosecutor-virginia-fired\/\">not the first court-appointed U.S. attorney to be ousted<\/a> by the Trump administration, but appears to be the first to file a lawsuit over his firing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-U.S. attorney sues Trump after brief firing, seeks reinstatement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2633572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26198039288934.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4274,4585,32640,33577],"class_list":["post-2633571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-firing","tag-lawsuit","tag-trump-administration","tag-us-attorney"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26198039288934.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633575,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633571\/revisions\/2633575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}