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Main Justice has an article today about the Northern District U.S. Attorney position that once appeared certain to be going to Christi McCoy. Here is the article. The article does not really shed much light on the situation other than suggesting that McCoy is still a possibility for the job, which I am hearing is not the case. The article does mention that Patsy Brumfield, who originally disputed Ya'll Politics' report that McCoy would not be nominated, now admits that there are problems:

But even Brumfield, who originally refuted reports that McCoy’s candidacy had run off the rails, has concluded that “something” is amiss. But what?

The article states that Curtis Ivy is campaigning for the position and that it could still go to McCoy. It's my understanding that McCoy ran into fatal problems unrelated to Joey Langston in the screening process and is out. I also understand that Ivy is trying to get the position, but is no shoe-in at this point even though other names have not emerged.

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Earlier this week Alan Lange at Ya'll Politics reported that Christi McCoy is no longer in the running for the appointment for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District. As mentioned in this earlier post, Patsy Brumfield at the N.E. Daily Journal disagreed. I did not opine on the issue in my earlier post, but I am now going on the record saying that Lange is right and that McCoy will not be appointed. I have two sources who both told me that McCoy's nomination hit an insurmountable snag. My sources are less certain that Curtis Ivy will be appointed for the slot, but he does appear to be in the running.  

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Ya'll Politics has this post this morning stating that Christi McCoy is out as the U.S. Attorney appointment for the Northern District and that the Curtis Ivy of Oxford is in. According to Ya'll: 

Today a source with insider knowledge tells YallPolitics McCoy's "deep" ties with Joey Langston, and other issues, stalled her possible nomination. The source then went on to say Curtis Ivy, who has been a contender since the beginning, is highly regarded by many involved.

YP could not independently confirm Ivy's chances, or whether McCoy's ties actually prevented her from becoming the U.S. Attorney, however the source has been spot on with many other issues, and finds him credible enough to worthy this post.
 

Ivy is an African-American assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District who has a good reputation. In June, it was widely reported that McCoy's name was already submitted to the White House. I discussed it in this post. If McCoy is out, it is a recent development that apparently was based on a decision made by the White House. Of course, the White House could make such a decision based on anticipated Republican opposition after floating the name to Republican Congressional leaders.

It has long been presumed that one of Mississippi's U.S. Attorney seats would go to a white and the other to an African-American. With McCoy being white, speculation in the Southern District focused on Natchez attorney Deborah McDonald. One question now is that if Ivy is in in the North, does it open the door in the South for someone like Cliff Johnson. There will be a lot of speculation on these issues in the coming days.