While Virginia’s current governor is facing more partisan pushback from the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly over his nominees to serve on state boards and commissions in the waning months of his administration (more regarding that issue coming soon to this space), two former Democrat governors have reached across the aisle to make suggestions to President Donald Trump for Virginia’s two open U.S. attorneys positions.
It is tradition that, regardless of party, when there are U.S. attorney vacancies in a state, the U.S. senators of that state recommend to the president potential replacements.
Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have jointly recommended to the president that he hire either Virginia House of Delegates Republican Minority Leader Todd Gilbert of Shenandoah County or former Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Tracci, a Republican, to…
