The president appoints and fires US attorneys who represent the federal government in district courts. Reagan and Clinton replaced all 93 attorneys each on taking office. Stuart Taylor a legal affairs writer for the National Journal states that It is reasonable for a president to dismiss prosecutors over policy. As with almost everything else under the attorney general Alberto Gonzalez things have not been handled well or in a straightforward manner. There is a lot of legal gray area regarding what constitutes the "loyalty" of a government lawyer and to whom that loyalty is owed. Many of the emails emails surrounding these firings are dubious and ill conceived; but the complaints against the sacked attorneys were described as substantial by the Economist on March 17 2007. Some of these attorney's refused to toe the line on illegal immigration, the death penalty and voting-fraud cases. What we seem to be witnessing is that the democrats won the mid term elections and they are flexing their new powers. Just like the republicans did in 1994. Graham.
> > >It's shameful what the Bush Administration has done to our system of >government, including the American Constitution. What has happen >boarders on a coup d'etat, but rather than a sudden overthrow of the >American government by force, the coup d'etat was in the form of a >gradual subversion of our government using non-violent attacks on the >system from within, especially through seizing control of the legal >system to make the legal system an arm of the exective branch. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
