It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

[Belsnickel]

(05-11-2017, 06:02 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Incorrect, her job is to defend the government's position in court.  If she feels she cannot in good faith perform that function then she should resign.  Simply saying I refuse to do my job is insufficient.  Again, I gave an excellent examples of professionals with integrity doing exactly what she should have done.  Oddly enough you ignored that example.

There is a reason that when AGs and their deputies are confirmed they are asked, rather pointedly and usually by Senators in opposition to the administration, if they are going to be willing and able to say no to the administration when they cross the line. That is the role of the DoJ. These positions do not swear loyalty to the administration, they swear to uphold the Constitution, the law. The tradition and culture with the DoJ is that it has a degree of independence that other departments do not. There is a reason that its cabinet level officer is not titled Secretary.

We can argue whether she was correct in her interpretation of the law, that's fine, but her role as acting AG was to do exactly what she did. Ideological differences are all that change one's opinion of her actions.