Who wants to be U.S. Attorney in Madison?

Apparently, not many Wisconsin lawyers want to go to work for President Donald Trump and his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

The Federal Nominating Commission, which screens applicants for U.S. Attorneys in Wisconsin's eastern and western districts, announced Monday that it was extending the deadline to apply until April 7.

"The number of applicants received to date are insufficient for the commission to fulfill its obligation to provide the names of four to six (4-6) applicants with a favorable recommendation," to Wisconsin's  U.S. Senators, Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.

John Vaudreuil, like dozens of U.S. Attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama, was asked to resign by Trump. Jeffrey M. Anderson was appointed the Acting U.S. Attorney March 11. Vaudreuil, 62, had worked in the same office as a federal prosecutor his entire career.

Trump ordered 46 of the 93 U.S. Attorneys to resign. Many others had already resigned. A new administration usually turns over the U.S. Attorney ranks, and sometimes completely, as Janet Reno, the Attorney General under President Bill Clinton, did in 1993.

The Trump purge has apparently spared Vaudriel's counterpart in Wisconsin's Eastern District, Gregory Haanstad, who was not an Obama appointee.  Haanstad, the former first assistant, took over as U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee after former U.S. Attorney James Santelle retired suddenly in 2015, while he was the subject of an investigation into his use of government credit cards.