Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked the 46 remaining Obama-era U.S. attorneys for their resignations.  It is customary for all U.S. attorneys appointed by the previous administration to submit their resignations at the start of the new president's term.  Sessions is not doing anything that any other new administration hasn't done in the past with federal prosecutors who are reluctant to leave. But you'd never know that listening to some Democrats. The Hill: Sessions asked for the federal prosecutors to resign "in order to ensure a uniform transition," DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement. "As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States Attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice," the spokeswoman said. The DOJ said career prosecutors in Sessions' office would continue investigations and prosecutions until the new U.S. attorneys...(Read Full Post)