The Bush Administration politicized the Justice Department, which is suppose to be an independent branch of the Government. It is important that the Justice Department be independent, so that justice is administered in a blind fashion, without regards to race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or political party affiliation, etc.
The way the Bush Administration structure the Justice Department, department heads and staff were instructed to use the Justice Department to attack political opponents of the GOP, and their supporters, while ignoring illegal acts committed by the GOP faithful. This is a very serious abuse of power by an Administration that used the Justice Department discriminately to attack perceived enemies. The Justice Department is suppose to enforce the constitution and laws of the land indiscriminately, (eg equally), regardless of race, religion, national origin, ethniticity, gender, sexual orientation, or political party affiliation. This was a direct abuse of the Justice Department and the Bush Administration's power gained through subverting it. Regards, LelandJ Graham Dobson wrote: > 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. >> > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
