That was quick! President Trump has just fired an attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The firing came just hours after the U.S. attorney was sworn in. The firing was first announced on X by Deputy AG Todd Blanche. Here’s the post: Judges don’t pick U.S. Attorneys, @POTUS does. See Article II of our Constitution. You are fired, Donald Kinsella. https://t.co/XUYRgaqG2T — Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) February 12, 2026 Fox News had the full scoop on the attorney’s firing President Donald Trump’s administration fired a U.S. attorney the same day he was sworn in for the role this week. A board of judges for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York tapped Donald T. Kinsella to serve as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, according to a court announcement that said Kinsella was sworn in on Wednesday. But Kinsella was then booted from the post on Wednesday. Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was blunt about the firing in a Wednesday post on X. “Judges don’t pick U.S. Attorneys, @POTUS does. See Article II of our Constitution. You are fired, Donald Kinsella,” Blanche wrote. In a Thursday statement, the court noted, “Yesterday the United States District Court appointed a United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, a position that was vacant.” “The Court exercised its authority under 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), which empowers the district court to ‘appoint a United States Attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.’ The United States Constitution expressly provides for this grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, which states in part: ‘the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment’ of officials such as United States Attorneys ‘in the Courts of Law.’ By the end of the day, Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, Morgan DeWitt Snow notified Mr. Kinsella that he was removed as the judicially-appointed United States Attorney, without explanation,” the statement noted. “The Court thanks Donald T. Kinsella for his willingness to return to public service so that this vacancy could be filled with a qualified, experienced former prosecutor, and for his years of distinguished work on behalf of the citizens of the Northern District of New York,” the statement added. Here’s a photo of Kinsella: “White House promptly fires new interim U.S. attorney in New YorkA panel of judges’ selection of Donald Kinsella to lead Northern District office…”https://t.co/N4gSFq1Z29 — Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) February 12, 2026 The firing comes at the same time the DOJ fired antitrust chief Gail Slater. Fox News provided more details on Slater’s firing: President Donald Trump fired Gail Slater, his top antitrust enforcer, on Thursday over concerns she was failing to aggressively pursue his affordability agenda, according to multiple sources. Slater announced her departure on X on Thursday, saying she was leaving with “great sadness and abiding hope” and that it was the “honor of a lifetime to serve” in her role. But her ouster was unsurprising to those familiar with the antitrust division. Slater, a one-time policy adviser to Vice President JD Vance, left a string of controversies in her wake, and, according to conversations Fox News Digital had with multiple sources, she was seen as too lax on the issue of affordability in the eyes of Justice Department leadership, leading to her termination. In one heated controversy, Slater opposed the DOJ settling a lawsuit that would have blocked a merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks. But Attorney General Pam Bondi and national security officials wanted to move forward with the settlement and overruled Slater, sources said. The sources said the dispute fractured Slater’s relationship with leadership and became so contentious that it led to the ouster of two of her deputies.