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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by waste gate
This whole thing could and should have been handled more effectively. Gonzalez should have told congress that the US Attorneys were hired for political reasons and terminated for political reasons. Both are true statements and both can be defended constitutionally. End of story....
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Now there's the caveat - A lawyer must do what he believes when being prosecutor without threat of his actions being used against him politically and without the threat of his job at stake. So no, Gonzalez can't say that.
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That certainly is the line of the Democrats in congress and the fired US attorneys after the fact, but it is not reality.
How does a
political appointee stay above the politics of the job? An example is illegal aliens. Why don't US Attorneys prosecute the mayor/city council of every 'sanctuary city'? Their policies break federal law and they know it. Politics comes into play.
My feeling is that you either uphold all federal law or you uphold the laws your boss deams appropriate. The problem is that congress in its zeal to look like it is meaningful enacts so many laws that the executive branch has no choice but to pick and choose enforcement.
Here is an idea; for every federal law passed by congress two must be removed. In the beginning this will be a simple matter but eventually real decisions will have to be made and congress will be forced to be more beholden to the people who elected them.