Overview
- Julianne Murray announced Friday that she is stepping down as acting U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware and as a special attorney to the attorney general.
- She said she 'naively believed' she would be retained based on performance but was 'not even considered' because of the blue-slip practice.
- Naming Sen. Chris Coons and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, she asserted they refused to return blue slips for political rather than performance reasons.
- Murray called the blue-slip custom 'highly politicized' and said it has cost Delaware a U.S. attorney and affected the country.
- The Daily Beast reported that Murray said she would not let the office become a 'political football,' and that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Wallace was named as her successor, while Trump ally Alina Habba publicly condemned the resignation on X.