President Trump began on Monday to nominate replacements for dozens of United States attorneys whom he fired shortly after taking office, sending eight names to the Senate for confirmation as chief federal prosecutors in their regions.
The retirement talk started around 2011, when the Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy wrote an essay in The New Republic arguing that both Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer should quit while there was still a Democratic president to nominate replacements.
Of the settlement agreements relating to 2015 and 2016 activist campaigns, 58% have provisions requiring minimum shareholding of the activists in order to keep the directors nominated by such activists on board or to nominate replacements if such directors resign or are otherwise unable to serve.
The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport has asked universities to nominate replacements for the 19 members of the National Research Council (CNCS), Romania's main research funding agency.
He told reporters that he was "in no hurry" to nominate replacements because having an administration full of high-level temps gave him "more flexibility".
The massive turnover in high-ranking and cabinet-level positions is unprecedented, as is Trump's reluctance to nominate replacements to undergo Senate confirmation hearings for those positions.
His Johnson-nominated replacement, Justice Abe Fortas, was blocked by the Senate, so no vacancy was filled.
Vacancies have grown under Obama, and the president has nominated replacements at a slower rate than those of his immediate predecessors, according to a report the Brookings Institution issued in December.
If Trainor replaces Goodman on the FEC, the six-member panel would still be on track to have two vacancies unless Trump nominates replacements for Democratic appointee Ann Ravel, who left earlier this year, and Republican appointee Matthew Petersen, whom the president recently tapped to be a federal judge.
Usually, the current shiners would nominate a replacement.
