When John Mitchell was President Nixon's Attorney General and Robert Kennedy was his brother's Attorney General, I wrote my Congressman with a question: "Where in the Constitution or any amendments is the provision that makes the Attorney General the Presidents lawyer?"
I never got an answer.
I have asked this question repeatedly of our distinguished elected officials and either they do not know or care.
But it seems to me the Attorney General should be the people's lawyer and above partisan politics. He should even protect the people from an abusive President, Democrat or Republican.
I therefore think he should be proposed and nominated by a senate panel of four Democrats and four Republicans (with an Independent, should there be one) and confirmed by 75% of the Senate.
I have always believed that the Attorney General function should be to protect the Constitution and the laws of the land for everyone and the prosecutors should not be appointed at the President's behest and subject to his or her political philosophy.
The winds of change give us different political parties in power, but laws should not be subject to these changes.
The Attorney General should only be fired for malfeasance and subjected to an impeachment procedure conducted by the House of Representatives.
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4 comments:
No revision needed. The AG has violated the law. We need a hearing and an indictment.
No revision needed. The AG has violated the law. We need a hearing and an indictment.
No revision needed. The AG has violated the law. We need a hearing and an indictment.
mgoldman writes:
AG's appointed by the President may have to follow Administration's policy guidelines (e.g. high % of drug convictions, immigration convictions, etc), but each case must be judged on its individual merits and American political leanings (Republican or Democrat)must never enter into the decision.
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