The White House has nominated George Kelesis to be U.S. Attorney for Nevada as a possible replacement to Sigal Chattah.

Kelesis is one of several judicial nominations announced by the White House on Thursday.

Kelesis has practiced law in Las Vegas since 1981.

If confirmed by the Senate, he would take over for Sigal Chattah, the current acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada, who was nominated by President Trump in March 2025.

Those who clicked on the Nevada icon on the 'Find Your United States Attorney' section of the DOJ's website are greeted with a page that states Chattah is now First Assistant United States Attorney and Special Attorney to the United States Attorney General.

Meanwhile, a lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York was immediately fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors.

Donald Kinsella spent less than a day in the position before he was dismissed on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his firing in a social media post.

“Judges don't pick U.S. Attorneys,” the president does, Blanche wrote, adding, “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”

It was unclear Thursday who was supervising the office, which handles federal prosecutions and other legal matters for a broad swath of upstate New York.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead the office, John Sarcone, is among a number of interim U.S. attorneys installed by the administration who judges have found to be unlawfully serving in their positions.

U.S. law normally requires senate confirmation for U.S. attorneys, and only allows people to serve in the position without that confirmation for limited time periods. Under Trump, however, the Justice Department has sought to leave unconfirmed prosecutors in their positions indefinitely, often through novel personnel maneuvers that courts have later ruled to be improper.

In December, Alina Habba resigned as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.

Lindsey Halligan, who pursued indictments against a pair of Trump’s adversaries, left her position as an acting U.S. attorney in Virginia after a judge concluded in November that her appointment was unlawful and that indictments she brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey must be dismissed.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Sarcone to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York in March 2025. But when his 120-day term elapsed, judges in the district declined to keep him in the post.

Sarcone stayed on anyway, and while in his position pursued another investigation of James, a Democrat and longtime Trump foe.

(The Associated Press, DOJ contributed to this report.)