US Attorneys Out, Allies in: Trump Said to Plan Quick Swaps

The Trump transition is attempting to remove US attorneys immediately by replacing them with interim leaders who’d be aligned with the president-elect’s priorities, said six lawyers briefed on the plans.

Transition staffers have been working to identify existing career prosecutors in many of the nation’s 93 law enforcement districts who they’d feel confident would support the president-elect’s law enforcement priorities—including deportations—once elevated as acting US attorneys, said the attorneys. They spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations.

One attorney familiar with the plan said the transition’s goal was to prevent “counter-revolutionaries” without necessarily choosing actings based on political ...