How Bill Barr's Manhattan transfer went awry

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/william-barr-jay-clayton-sec-338703

Shortly after 9 p.m. that evening, Attorney General Bill Barr made two announcements in one fateful missive: Geoffrey Berman, the powerful U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, was stepping down from his job, effective immediately. And President Donald Trump would nominate Clayton to take his place. In the meantime, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey would step in.

There was just one hiccup: Berman hadn’t actually resigned.