Not only that, but they didn’t even really need recess appointments. They simply could have asked for resignations without saying the dismissals were based on “performance” which pissed of the dismissed US Attorneys. Then make a normal nomination and at the hearing the Congress would, in an overwhelmeing number of cases, have waved them through because that’s the usual procedure with US Attorneys.
But the replacements haven’t been in office long enough for the new law to be relevant. Putting in an interim replacement after a USA was fired or resigned was always routine, wasn’t it?
ok. I guess their having installed appointees and agreed among themselves to invoke the Patriot Act isn’t enough.