Should US attorneys be subject to political firings?

Answer 1

Yes, by firing squads. In fact all lawyers need to be put in front of a firing squad and put out of our misery.

Answer 2

We are supposed to have "separation of powers" and the Judicial Branch of the government is supposed to completely independent from the Legislative and Executive Branches of Government. Our Supreme Court and our attorneys are supposed to interpret the law and enforce the law independent of all other branches of government. This is supposed to give us Checks and Balances. However, how do you separate the politics when the President appoints the Attorney General and he gets to appoint the Supreme Court Justices. Granted they have to be confirmed by the Senate, but still, it is highly unlikely that the Judicial System will show the independence it is charged with in our Constitution when they risk losing their jobs and maybe even their lives.

I'd like the people to have direct, free access, to our Judicial Branch of Government and we, the people, should serve on tribunals that will determine whether or not an attorney or a judge or a judicial system employee acted outside the scope of his/her authority. That's the only way that our system can be brought back to Constitutionality.

Answer 3

Let is not forget that they are political HIRINGS to begin with. The best thing to do would be to make the US Attorney General and ALL regional US Attorneys (ideally non-partisan) ELECTIVE OFFICES --as are state attorney generals and local district attorneys-- so that they can be held accountable directly by the people.

Answer 4

Yes they should be . These are political appointee's and part of the powers to place nearly 3000 people to serve as the president wants . That 93 people serve at the whim of the president should be of no surprise to anyone who has gone to school for more than a few years .

Answer 5

YES. They're political appointees!!!!!

I really wouldn't care if Democrats were doign the same thing - they HAVE done it and I didn't care about it.

It's POLITICS. There's going to be some of that. I'm far more concerned with them spending hundreds of billions of dollars on pure crap.

The problem isn't that the crap enriches this or that group that hired a lobbyist that paid for a Congressman's trip to Hawaii for a "seminar." The problem is the crap itself. There would still be bridges to nowhere even if nobody bribed legislators to have them build by their company.

We need to shut off the spigot, not spend MORE money on investigations of whether bribery laws were broken in directing where the money went to - - I don't want it spent, or taken from us, in the first place.

Answer 6

Political firings, no. If they were lacking in job skills, yes. The latter does not seem to be the case for the most recent US attorney firings.

Answer 7

I suspected this from Day One on a similar time as the story broke on NPR. i might wager this substitute into part of what led to the unraveling of the Bush White abode. The GOP out clevered its self. What amazes me is that Rove et al ever concept this does not count quantity or come to gentle. Hubris. organic and organic and easy. i'm particular this enable to Gonzales having to provide up besides. under Bush, the GOP sank to a clean low, under Nixon even and that i by no ability concept that substitute into available.

Answer 8

This is nothing new. Clinton fired all of them when he took office. They serve the American people at the pleasure of the president. If you don't like it, write a bill and get it passed and signed into law.

Answer 9

The firings are the tip of the iceberg. The real story is using the Justice department to selectively target democratic political oppponents.

Answer 10

How else should the position of US attorney be filled? Currently, they serve at the behest of the president, just like cabinet members. Perhaps the legislature should be allowed to approve their hiring and firing, but then that would bog the system down with beauracracy.