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In reply to the discussion: So is the Department of Justice Independent from the White House or Not? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)We don't like law x, so the DOJ should just roll over and not defend it. That way it does not go to the Court and the issue remains up in the air. Because apparently we're afraid of the court. And of the system. Because Republicans are no different from Democrats and so Republicans influences the Court's make-up may as well be in office as Democrats.
The left who complain about this are in essence saying the POTUS should abuse the position to enforce only laws we like, and should snap his fingers and say, "DADT is not more, because we're not going to defend it."
Then if a Republican President did something like that, the reverse would occur. How dare the Republican President not collect taxes (that'd be a similar thing). How dare the Republican President not defend the constitutionality of the welfare law in court?