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TX Senators blocking US Attorney nominations

After a year in office, Texas still has no nominees for US Attorney and the Houston Chronicle's Mary Flood has the story why:President Barack Obama enters his second year in office having filled only a third of the 93 top federal prosecutor spots in the nation, and no one's even nominated for the four open positions in Texas. A classic political stalemate pitting Texas' Democratic congressional delegation and Obama's administration against Texas' pair of Republican senators is partly to blame for the slowed process here. Similar fights in other states, as well as an especially cautious presidential nominating process, have left most of the nation without freshly appointed lead federal prosecutors, who direct law enforcement priorities and approve work on the big projects...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).