Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump has nominated a slew of prospective federal prosecutors to fill top US attorney seats across the nation, but personally met with one prior to her selection in June -- a move some former Justice Department and White House sources say sharply departs from past practice and more generally is at odds with the understood custom of insulating US attorneys from political influence.

Jessie Liu, the current deputy general counsel for the Treasury Department who Trump tapped to be the next US attorney for the District of Columbia, disclosed in her responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she met with the President as part of her interview process.

"I attended formal interviews at the Department of Justice, including with the attorney general," Liu wrote in the Senate submission obtained by CNN. "I also interviewed with representatives of the White House Counsel's Office and then met the President with the White House counsel."

Liu added that she did not keep "detailed records" of her nominee selection process, but stated that "(n)o one has asked me to commit that I will be loyal to the President or the Attorney General, and I have not made such a commitment."

Of the first seven US attorney nominees that Trump selected in June, only Liu said that she met with Trump. Other nominees described only meeting with Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in their submissions.

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