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July 28, 2025

2 entries on this date.

DOJ designated Sigal Chattah 'first assistant' to a vacant post to bypass Senate confirmation for Nevada's top prosecutor job

On July 28, 2025, two days before her 120-day interim term as Nevada's U.S. Attorney was set to expire, Sigal Chattah resigned as interim U.S. Attorney and the Justice Department designated her "first assistant U.S. attorney" for the District of Nevada the same day, leaving the top post itself vacant and letting her continue serving as "acting" U.S. Attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act without ever facing Senate confirmation. Attorney General Pam Bondi made the designation; Nevada's two Democratic senators called it an unconstitutional maneuver to keep an unconfirmable nominee in office without a floor vote.

San Diego County Sheriff's Office moved dementia patient, 82, from jail medical unit to solitary confinement; he died nine days later

On July 28, 2025, Karim Talib, an 82-year-old man with dementia who used a wheelchair and was incontinent, died at San Diego's Central Jail nine days after Sheriff's Office staff moved him from a medical observation unit into solitary confinement. Talib had been found incompetent to stand trial and declared unlikely to regain competency after five months at a state psychiatric hospital, but prosecutors sought a conservatorship to keep him jailed rather than release him, and sworn declarations from nearby detainees describe him lying unresponsive in his own waste for days before he was found dead. The county Medical Examiner attributed the death to heart disease complicated by a kidney infection.