Laurie Levenson, a professor at LMU Loyola Law School, spoke with Bloomberg Law about the impact of Bill Essayli stepping into the first assistant U.S. attorney role after a federal judge disqualified him from serving as the acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California earlier this week. “The practical effect of the ruling is not much. It simply means that the sign on his door won’t say ‘acting’ or ‘US Attorney,” she said.
Levenson also said that “future legal challenges may center [on] the scope of the first assistant’s responsibility.”
Source: Bloomberg Law