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The President runs the executive branch but what if the President is a crook? Special prosecutors have always been problematic. Electing the Attorney-General would have been a better solution.
I strongly disagree. This would take an office with at least some expectation of non-partisanship, and make it purely partisan.
But yeah, special prosecutors are a problem.
The solution is in the Constitution: impeachment. That's what it's there for: a President who is a criminal or generally not a good guy or not doing the right thing.
I thought "Impeachment and removal from office" was the Constitution's answer to "What if the President is a crook?" Electing the Attorney-General would vitiate the ability of the President to run the executive branch. Given how a professional and supposedly "apolitical" civil service has worked out over the past century, I'd rather stick with the flaws of impeachment as a check on a crooked President.
The term you are looking for is 'impeachment.' Unfortunately, that requires that the same rot doesn't completely pervade Congress...
ReplyDeleteI strongly disagree. This would take an office with at least some expectation of non-partisanship, and make it purely partisan.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, special prosecutors are a problem.
The solution is in the Constitution: impeachment. That's what it's there for: a President who is a criminal or generally not a good guy or not doing the right thing.
What if the AG is a crook?
ReplyDeleteI thought "Impeachment and removal from office" was the Constitution's answer to "What if the President is a crook?" Electing the Attorney-General would vitiate the ability of the President to run the executive branch. Given how a professional and supposedly "apolitical" civil service has worked out over the past century, I'd rather stick with the flaws of impeachment as a check on a crooked President.
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