This is why we need to elect our US Attorney General every 2 years.

Instead of the AG being a presidential appointed position.

The Aristocracy of America is above the law.

No high ranking official, public or private will be prosecuted under Holder and damn sure NOT at the behest of this President.

I'm fast losing faith.

Would that person be elected on the same basis as the president? How in the world could they fund a nationwide campaign. And if they could fund it wouldn't it be all corporate money?

we're great at picking politicians for the job they've self selected. Get a new hobby horse!

to amend the constitution to implement your idea?

Quite frankly, I'd fight any such effort tooth and nail as I'm sure the vast majority would.

... because having elected AGs at the state and county level has clearly eliminated all the problems that ever existed. There's never any corruption or elitism or graft. Squeaky clean, answerable to the people with their votes.

You know what'd be really awesome?

What if -- stick with me here -- what if somehow Dennis Kucinich were elected President and Robert Bork the AG.

Now, since the Justice Department is actually a creation of the Executive, clearly we would have had to have some constitutional amendments to allow this whole thing to happen in the first place, but let's say we managed that. Now, we've got this awesome super-liberal in the White House, and he's responsible for executing the laws. One way he executes laws is through the DoJ. President Kucinich comes along and says he wants to prosecute each and ever corporation in the entire country, and old Bork tells him "Fuck you. What I'm going to do instead is start an investigation of your office for attempting to undermine 14th amendment protections that apply to corporations." Now what happens?

This is why we need to think about what we're offering as solutions to problems before going off about them.

A few years ago, no way.

The pendulum is swinging left, slowly. But it is swinging left.

To answer your Q about an elected righty AG going after a progressive pres..

A failed attempt at a frivolous investigation or attempt at indictment would be the political undoing of an elected AG. It's what keeps state elected AG's somewhat honest.

Ive spent the past 30 years since Ray-gun's election thinking about this.

BTW im a huge fan of Baldur's Gate I&II, Icewind Dale I&II. Epic games. I may re-load them and play BG as bard or some wimp class and see if I can beat it LOL.

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The point is that altering the constitution and the nature of how our federal government works such that the head of the chief law enforcement department of the country is an elected official will result in the executive branch being completely incapable of doing their job.

You're not suggesting we change the nature of the AG position so that he or she becomes an elected official. You're suggesting a complete re-writing of the Constitution itself.

730 days? The campaigning will never stop and the lies will never end.

It has all the attributes of a Republican policy: utterly shortsighted and completely unnoticing of both likely and unintended consequences.

You sit and think about it for a while. Let's start with how anything could be prosecuted by someone always running for office and soliciting campaign funds. Let's start there.

General since he can only prosecute with presidential permission.

If they cannot decide which should take a case, have a jury decide or draw straws for them.

Elect again every four years or when a vacancy occurs.

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Seriously, that would make a great system.

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Staggered terms. It works well. Keeps continuity.

The competing AGs is really to anger the ultra-rich who buy all our Congress-critters and media hacks. They'll have to buy all four. Not that hard, but harder at least.

has become a sad farce in this regard.

and then add to that the corporations are people meme and we'd be sorely screwed.