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“Seized properties should be put up for public auction, or there should be some other suitably public way that everyone has a fair chance of getting at the property,” said Raff Donelson, professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “If that doesn’t happen, that really ought to be a crime.”

“There have been five interim U.S. attorneys appointed by President Trump who’ve been disqualified simply because the president has decided not to follow the statute and not to present the name of the candidate to the Senate for ratification,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Now in this case, after the judge has found her to be improperly appointed, she just decided to stay on pending appeal.”

“One of the narratives that has come out of this administration in recent months is ‘we are immune,’ and that’s incorrect,” said Noah Smith-Drelich, an assistant professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.