The ouster on Friday of the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of President Donald Trump’s most-reviled adversaries was a huge blow to the Justice Department’s teetering tradition of independence, showing how far Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the institution.

The way in which the prosecutor, Erik Siebert, was abruptly forced from his post atop the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia deepened troubling questions that have arisen in recent months about the politicization of the Justice Department’s supposedly self-governing satellite offices. But it also raised a blunter and more immediate issue: Which of the nation’s U.S. attorneys might be next?

Beyond their efforts to push out Siebert, whose inquiries into Letitia James, New York’s atto

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