Top US prosecutor appointed to New York Albany office by judges is immediately ousted
A lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York has been fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors. Donald Kinsella spent less than a day in the position before he was dismissed. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his firing in a social media post. It was unclear Thursday who was supervising the office, which handles federal prosecutors and other legal matters for a broad swath of upstate New York. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the office is John Sarcone. He is among a number of interim U.S. attorneys installed by the administration who have been found by judges to be unlawfully serving in their positions.