Reply #80: Capitol Hill Blue: "Prosecutors will be Violated "

[L. Coyote]

Prosecutors will be Violated
Saturday, 31 March 2007 - http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/413/174/


Every time someone from the administration tries to justify the firing of the eight United States attorneys they seem to make matters worse.

The core explanation centers around "they serve at the pleasure of the president" equating the eight with flat out political hacks such as Karl Rove, the architect of extreme partisanship. This explanation is simplistic, deceptive and dissembling.

While all appointments to the administration are political in every sense of that term, those made to act on behalf of the people in the administration of justice occupy a unique position. Foundational to any free society is the faith that its laws are being applied fairly and without preference. Lacking such trust in a fair system of justice, the rule of law evaporates and people increasingly feel that they, too, can pick and choose among the laws they obey.

Firing eight officers of the law for political reasons eats at this trust, ......MORE.....