Yes....in fact, it is standard practice.......
However...
The normal practice is to allow the attorneys to finish any current cases, and then they submit their resignations.........and they get replaced by the new administration...
Clinton was different because he had his large minion, Janet Reno, order all U.S. attorney's to resign, regardless of their cases....this was due to the fact that a U.S. attorney was looking into the felonies the clinton's had committed with their real estate scams in Arkansas.....they then replaced that attorney with one of their own...
Various news sources covering the story...
www.nytimes.com
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno demanded resignation letters from all 93 U.S. attorneys on Tuesday. The sweeping edict will allow Reno, President Clinton and Democratic senators to r…
www.sun-sentinel.com
Source that didn't have a paywall...
That is mostly true, replied D. Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales. “Clinton fired all Bush [U.S. attorneys] in one fell swoop. We fired all Clinton [U.S. attorneys] but staggered it out more and permitted some to stay on a few months,” he said.
A few minutes later, Deputy Atty. Gen. Paul J. McNulty replied to the same memo.
“On the issue of Clinton [U.S. attorneys], we called each one and had them give us a timeframe. Most were gone by late April.
In contrast, Clinton [Justice Department] told all but a dozen in early March to be gone immediately,” McNulty said.
The difference appears minor. Both McNulty and Sampson acknowledged that the Bush administration, like the Clinton administration, brought in a new slate of U.S. attorneys within a few months of taking office.
The GOP says the Clinton administration first politicized the Justice Department. But the pattern is older.
www.latimes.com
