Politicizing The Judiciary?
Brett Tolman's days are numbered.
It's just a matter of time before he's out of a job. That's the way things work in this democracy: New president + New political party = New U.S. attorney...
Perception wouldn't matter if George W. Bush was still president, if there wasn't a crowd of Democratic attorneys who want his job, if Tolman didn't have political aspirations.
But for Utah's U.S. attorney, perception is everything right now -- the difference between having a job in a few months and running for Congress or perhaps attorney general for a long three years.
"Holdovers are rare," says Scott Matheson, U.S. attorney for Utah from 1993 to 1997. "There's a new administration, a new justice department. At some point, the White House is going to look to put their own people in."
Now shen President Bush did this he was accused of politicizing the judiciary. I suspect that there will be no howls of outrage from the same folks when it is THEIR GUY that does it. I'm not sayin'...I'm just sayin'...
Labels: President Obama
posted by The Lady Logician at
8:20 PM
3 Comments:
How short your memory is, or how blinding your ideology must be. Either way, you've got to be kidding me.
EVERY President does this. That wasn't what was at issue with Gonzalez's DOJ. See, they were replacing attorney's who wouldn't pursue losing cases that would be good for Republican re-election bids.
Quite different from just changing the guard.
Seriously, I don't have time to keep you people honest every night! :)
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Jason The, at 10:13 PM
" I don't have time to keep you people honest every night! :)"
But we do love you for it, Jason! Keep up the good work, dear man!
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Anonymous, at 9:20 PM
Speaking of keeping people honest Jason, I think I will go back through your blog archives to see if you said THE SAME THING when it was President BUSH firing the same folks. After all, it was executive privilege and all....
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 9:52 PM
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