Barbara McQuade
speaker
424 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
Barbara McQuade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, you don't need a slam dunk, but it needs to be probable that, yeah, I think I got it.
Of course, there's always the chance of a holdout juror.
The evidence doesn't come in the way you expected it to.
But you have to believe, like, it's likely I'm going to get a conviction at trial.
I just can't believe anybody looks at this case and thinks that's true.
Yes.
So it is not unusual for a president to replace U.S.
attorneys.
That's pretty typical and even expected.
I had actually planned to leave myself at the end of April to come work at the University of Michigan by that time.
But it was a very abrupt way to end the tenure of president.
I think it was something like 47 remaining U.S.
attorneys who'd been appointed by President Obama.
And to me, that was just not good government.
On a Friday afternoon in March of that year, I started hearing from colleagues around the country that they had been fired.
Our public affairs officer came into my office and told me how sorry she was.
And I said, what are you talking about?
And she said, oh, they've just announced, the Justice Department has just announced that all of the Obama U.S.
attorneys have been.
asked to resign.
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