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Judges approve Trump pick Jay Clayton to remain interim US attorney for Southern District of New York

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Fews App Post Time 17h ago

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s pick to be the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan will get to stay in the job, even though he hasn’t been confirmed by the US Senate, after a group of judges voted Monday to allow him to continue in the position. The judges’ decision to approve Jay Clayton as the US attorney for the Southern District of New York is a victory for the Trump administration, which has resorted to unorthodox maneuvers to keep some of the president’s other nominees for US attorneys in place after they failed to advance in the Senate. The outcome was announced in a release by Southern District Executive Edward Friedland.

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