Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney in Seattle at 7:40 on Wednesday morning. Fifty-four minutes later he was fired by Trump over email. When a reporter asked him about it, he said: “Greatest hour in my life.”

As reported by Bloomberg Law and confirmed by KOMO News and FOX 13 Seattle, seven federal judges in the Western District of Washington unanimously appointed Rogoff to a job that has sat without a Senate-confirmed occupant for nearly three years.

They did it under a federal statute that lets them fill the seat when the vacancy drags on. Rogoff took the oath. He walked out to a lobby to wait for a meeting with the outgoing interim.

That is where the email found him. Subject line: “A Message From the President.”

Read what it says. “The President of the United States has directed that I inform you that, pursuant to his authority, you are hereby removed from the office of the United States Attorney.”

No call. No conversation. No one asked him a single question about how he intended to do the job. The White House did not even wait for the appointment to become public. It fired him before most of Seattle knew he had the job.

Then Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and now the acting Attorney General, announced it on X like a scoreboard update. “Roger Rogoff has been fired by the President.”

Consider who they threw away in under an hour.

Rogoff spent 14 years as a King County prosecutor handling sexual assault and domestic violence cases. Six years as a federal prosecutor working violent crime, gangs, and guns. Seven years as a Superior Court judge.

Then he ran Washington’s first-in-the-nation office created to independently investigate police killings, so cops would stop investigating themselves. Senator Patty Murray called him eminently qualified. Nobody has said otherwise, because nobody looked.

Rogoff’s read on his own firing: “When the judges appoint somebody constitutionally and statutorily, and they’re summarily dismissed without a conversation, without an examination, without any understanding of what they intend to do when they get into office, then yes, I think that firing is not appropriate and is most likely unlawful.”

He has hired a national law firm. He is considering suing. They gave a 26-year public servant 54 minutes and a form email. He’s going to give them a lawsuit.