What Constitutional Crisis?

The July 23^rd Seattle Times editorial “Seattle U.S. Attorney’s Office is in a Constitutional Crisis” is another example of what can only charitably be considered, “journalistic advocacy”.  The Constitution gives the president the right to nominate the U.S Attorney for the Western District of Washington. “Acting” Attorney General Todd Blanche was presumably nominated and approved by “the advice and consent of the Senate”, so it’s not clear why a District Court would nominate Roger Rogoff for the office.  

Yet the editorial proclaims Murray, one of the Senators, is on the “right side of history and the law” though her referring to Attorney General Blanche as a “sock puppet” was hardly conducive to “good relations”.   Murray’s claim the DOJ is not the President’s personal law firm to enforce his mob-style politics continued her diatribe though she failed to include an example.

The bottom line is the Senator Murray obviously has her objections, however the office is not a balance of power between the president and the Senate.  The president gets to nominate, and the Senate gets to either confirm or reject his candidates not to nominate and confirm their choice.  The next President may have different choices, however allowing the process to continue until then is hardly a “Constitutional Crisis”.